No. It's because wrongful death has a much lower legal requirement.
Explain please (this isn't correct)
You do not have to prove a violation of law, or that police did anything legally wrong, to win a wrongful death suit.
Wrong
(which is one of the reasons I'm against them).
You're entitled to your opinion but your opinion is based on a mistaken premise
Further, the suit wasn't even against the police, it was against the city. I wager if the suit had been against the police officers involved, it would have failed.
The city is the officer's employer
The city doesn't try that hard to defend against suits like that, because there is a political blow back risk if the city wins.... and.... almost as important.... "the city" is just a word for tax payers. The people running the city lost nothing. The tax payers are the ones that got screwed... which ironically includes all the minorities struggling to make a living.
And this makes it even more egregious in my opinion.
The people who actually keep creating the problems by killing the citizens whose taxes pay their salary almost NEVER are held accountable for the harm they cause. There is not a single other profession where someone can negligently or even intentionally cause the death of another human being and get away with a blatant lie that they were in fear for their lives. Why is it that white people with guns making actual threats very seldomly get gunned down by the police (unless they were already gunning for the person from the beginning like the guy they wanted for shooting a Portland pro-police supporter) but black people who are unarmed, not threatening the police, not attempting to harm them do?
Why are the police not afraid of white people with guns but are so afraid of black people without guns that they even imagine they see guns where there are none? This is the core problem, oh and all of you all (and them) thinking it's just fine (and legal) to shoot and kill a black person for disobedience but white people who are an actual threat are not gunned down in the streets and the police don't seem to be afraid to even get physical with them, done on the ground wrestling with some of them which is a rather idiotic thing to do if you're a police officer because it places you in a very vulnerable position as we can see here (not sure why they have the inappropriate label posted below or what is so disturbing about it. It certain wasn't nearly as disturbing as watching Chauvin kneeling for George Floyd's neck for more than 8 minutes):
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The people who actually keep creating the problems by killing the citizens whose taxes pay their salary almost NEVER are held accountable for the harm they cause.
That's a lie. Police are caught, and prosecuted all the time. The difference is, unlike you, the rest of us understand that most of the time the police are acting lawfully.
There is not a single other profession where someone can negligently or even intentionally cause the death of another human being and get away with a blatant lie that they were in fear for their lives.
Wow that's shockingly true. Shocking I say.
Do tell, which other profession are you required to put your life in harms way, to confront the most dangerous and murderous people in society?
Why is it that white people with guns making actual threats very seldomly get gunned down by the police (unless they were already gunning for the person from the beginning like the guy they wanted for shooting a Portland pro-police supporter) but black people who are unarmed, not threatening the police, not attempting to harm them do?
First that's not true. More whites are killed by police than blacks.
As for why proportionally blacks are killed by police at a larger rate than whites, well... just look at the stats.
So what we can learn from this is that while Blacks make up 16% of the population, they commit nearly half the murders.
So logically.... police are more likely to encounter hostile and violent blacks, proportionally to their demographic size. Thus more blacks are shot by police, proportionally as well.
Why are the police not afraid of white people with guns but are so afraid of black people without guns that they even imagine they see guns where there are none?
I find it ironic that you make this statement, in a thread about an incident where a black guy with a gun shot a police officer.
Second, saying "they didn't have a gun" with 20/20 hindsight is a cop-out. Were you there? Did you know before hand that the black man didn't have a gun? No you were not? And you have no idea if any given person is armed?
1. Police are not omniscient, and have no idea who is armed, and who is not.
2. Police are not randomly waking up in the morning, and deciding to go to violent areas of the city with high murder rates. They are going there because that's their job, and people request they do it.
3. Police are reacting to a number of factors, including how the person in front of them is acting and their attitude.
4. Police are often acting on external evidence. Such as, looking for an armed robbery suspect, or being called out because someone reported a man with a gun.
If police stop a man because he fits the description of an armed robbery suspect, that officer is going to assume he's armed, until they identify him, and determine he has no weapon.
This is the core problem, oh and all of you all (and them) thinking it's just fine (and legal) to shoot and kill a black person for disobedience but white people who are an actual threat are not gunned down in the streets and the police don't seem to be afraid to even get physical with them, done on the ground wrestling with some of them which is a rather idiotic thing to do if you're a police officer because it places you in a very vulnerable position as we can see here (not sure why they have the inappropriate label posted below or what is so disturbing about it.
So I think we have actually identified the core problem here. You are a liar. Because nothing of what you said is true.
White people are killed by police all the time. The difference is, white people don't stand up for evil. We're not going to stand up against police in the death of an evil criminal.... because we good people. Good people do not protest the death of evil people.
Nothing of what you said there was true. Nothing.