Family of man killed by Vallejo police to get nearly $6M

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The city of Vallejo in the San Francisco Bay area has agreed to pay $5.7 million to the family of a Black man who was shot and killed by a Vallejo police officer in 2018, city officials announced Friday.

Ronell Foster, 33, was riding a bike in downtown Vallejo without a headlamp the evening of Feb. 13, 2018, when he was spotted and pursued by Officer Ryan McMahon, who later told investigators that he stopped Foster in order to “educate the public on the dangers that this person was creating for himself and the traffic on Sonoma Boulevard,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

After a brief pursuit, McMahon said, Foster grabbed his metal flashlight and tried to strike him during a physical altercation, prompting McMahon to open fire. Foster died at the scene after being shot in the back of the head.

McMahon was cleared of wrongdoing in January by the Solano County District Attorney’s Office, which declared McMahon’s deadly use of force justified after an investigation that included body camera footage.

Read more: https://apnews.com/7025c7799b11d82e2290af230251b850

[The Magistrate]

1. Every Dime Ought To Come Out His Pension, Sir

And any overage from the general fund, or teh pension of his immediate supervisor, the latter for failing to recognize the killer's unsuitability for, and incompetence at, the task of law enforcement.

[joshdawg]

2. Wait! What?

Foster was shot in the BACK of the head and the officer was cleared of wrongdoing???

I agree with the other poster, that money should come out of the officer's pension!

[benld74]

3. How did the town pay $6M?

[PatrickforO]

4. OK, so they 'cleared' the officer of wrongdoing, BUT have agreed to pay

the family $5.7 million...

Think about that for a minute.

Racism is pretty expensive, because for that kind of money, these officers could be retrained and the whole culture in that police department shifted to 'serve and protect,' rather than, 'it's a war and the public is the enemy.'

[stillcool]

6. it's way worse....this one won't compute

Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams indicated his intent to fire McMahon in March, based in part on his conduct during another fatal shooting, that of 21-year old Willie McCoy. The termination is pending, a spokeswoman for the city said.

In a March letter to McMahon that was made public, Williams said McMahon endangered the lives of other police officers, neglected basic firearm safety and demonstrated “unsatisfactory work performance including, but not limited to, failure, incompetence,” in connection with the McCoy incident.

McMahon was temporarily placed on paid administrative leave following the fatal shooting of Foster, but was later cleared to return to duty. One year later, he was one of six officers who shot and killed McCoy, who was asleep in a car in a Taco Bell drive-through lane.

Vallejo police spokeswoman Brittany Jackson declined to provide details about McMahon’s leave, calling it a “pending personnel matter.” McMahon was paid $219,433 in salary and benefits in 2018, the year he shot Foster, according to public records.

https://apnews.com/7025c7799b11d82e2290af230251b850

[Nitram]

5. Shot in the back of his head while attacking him with a flashlight?

[beachbumbob]

7. that $5.7 million should be paid for by the police and retirees with pay and pension cuts

Once cops and retirees start footing the bill, there will be 90% improvement in police related killings. Until cops have financial skin in the game, the situation will NEVER change