A Waste Of Money

This should be voted down.
From the Las Vegas Sun:
Metro Police are offering a $1.5 million settlement to the wife of Stanley Gibson, the Gulf War veteran fatally shot by an officer in December 2012.
Sheriff Doug Gillespie sent an email this afternoon to members of Metro's Fiscal Affairs Committee asking them to support his recommendation for the settlement with Rondha Gibson.
“We have a tentative agreement with the family pending your approval,” Gillespie wrote....
Rondha Gibson filed a lawsuit in Nevada’s U.S. District Court in December 2012, almost a year after her husband was shot and killed. The lawsuit accuses Las Vegas police of civil rights violations leading to the wrongful death of Stanley Gibson....
The deadly officer-involved shooting happened in the early morning hours of Dec. 12, 2011, at the Alondra Condominiums, 2451 N. Rainbow Blvd, after reports of an attempted burglary.
When the suspect vehicle described to police — a white Cadillac — showed back up at the complex, officers blocked it in and realized it belonged to Gibson.
Police said Gibson refused commands to get out of his vehicle and rammed a patrol car, periodically revving his car’s engine and spinning its tires.
Authorities on scene devised a plan to fire a bean-bag round into Gibson’s vehicle, but when the bean-bag round hit the vehicle window, Arevalo mistakenly thought he was being shot at and returned fire. He fired seven shots from his .223-caliber rifle into the Cadillac, killing Gibson, who his wife said suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/oct/08/metro-seeks-ok-15-million-settlement-widow-slain-g/
First and foremost, the family and Gibson are responsible for about 95% of what happened that night.  The Gibson family knew he was delusional and did little to help him or curtail his activities.
Gibson is responsible for his actions because he didn't accept help, probably didn't take his meds and his actions at the scene put people and cops in danger.
Finally, in Washington DC last, we had the almost exact same circumstance.  A mentally ill woman ran a couple of barricades, ran off and when the cops caught up to her, they killed her.
In Washington DC, the cops are being hailed as heroes, in Las Vegas, we are paying out $1,500,000.