Court Forces Cop to Pay $1 Million in His Own Money to Family He Terrorized, Called Racial Slurs
As reported extensively, law enforcement officials , even when found guilty for his or her abusive actions, are almost never held personally liable. it's the taxpayers who foot the bill. However, a trend in accountability seems to be happening more often and can be massively simpler at curbing police brutality than any system in situ at once . Cops are being forced to pay their victims out of their own pockets. The most recent case of a cop being held personally accountable for his crimes comes from Nashville, Tenn. A now-former NYPD cop, Michael J. Reynolds has been ordered to pay $1 million by a federal judge for breaking down the door to an innocent family’s home and terrorizing them within the middle of the night. Federal Judge Eli Richardson mandated that Reynolds pay $1 million to Conese Halliburton for kicking within the outside door and terrorizing her family, which was all captured on the family’s surveillance cameras. As the Tennessean reports, Hal