Prosecutor in the Tookie Williams case being sued for killing unarmed man

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http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/base/national-56/1134379748292950.xml&storylist=tookie

In February 2003, Monaghan shot and killed an unarmed driver he had pulled over while working as a reserve San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy. The defense argues Monaghan acted in self-defense after a foot chase.

The Sheriff's Department ruled the shooting of Jose Luis Perea, 47, was within the department's policy guidelines, and prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge Monaghan with a crime. But Perea's family filed a $30 million wrongful death lawsuit.

In September, a federal magistrate judge dismissed much of the lawsuit but let two claims — excessive force and negligence — move forward. The court questioned some of Monaghan's account of the shooting.

Monaghan has said that after the traffic stop, he chased Perea through a pallet yard in Fontana. He said he was forced to open fire out of fear the suspect might have a weapon.

[sasha031]

1. thank you for posting this

This case is getting more complex the more I read about it. I think there are allot of unanswered questions.

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2. As Alice said, it just keeps getting curioser and curioser.

It is kind of interesting thoug isn't it?

[gratuitous]

3. Chasing the guy down, without backup

And so Monaghan plugs him because the guy "might" have a weapon?

If I'm ever accused of shooting someone in the back when he's running away from me, I hope that defense is available to me: "Your Honor, he could have had a gun, and what if he'd stopped, turned around, pulled his weapon, aimed it at me, and fired, and if the gun didn't jam, and I didn't dodge behind something, and a bunch of other factors, why, he could have put my eye out! I had to shoot him in the back!"

"Case dismissed."

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4. I like that the magistrate pointed out that if the guy had a gun

he probably wouldn't have thrown a baseball cap and an eyeglass case.

[nofurylike]

5. so, after receiving such leniency from the court, he turns around and is

cutthroat.
talk about cold-blooded!

bigot man in bigot court.

how disgusting it is that one comes to *expect* stories like this - and the absence of any indignation in the media!

aaaarrrgh!!!

thank you for posting this, ET Awful.


peace!