Of Course They Would Sue

Sometimes, it is hard to accept the fact that as a parent you suck.  In this case, the parents sucked, got their killed killed and now are blaming the cops.
From the San Fran Chronicle: The family of the Sonoma County teenager shot to death last month by a sheriff's deputy who mistook the boy's replica gun for an assault rifle sued the county Monday.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, claims that Deputy Erick Gelhaus should have recognized that Andy Lopez Cruz's replica AK-47 was a toy.
"What the hell were you thinking? This was a 13-year-old boy," the family's attorney, Arnoldo Casillas, said at a press conference in San Francisco.
Andy's parents, Rodrigo Lopez and Sujay Cruz, spoke briefly to reporters, saying they want the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office held accountable for their son's death....
Gelhaus, a 24-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office, has said through his attorney that he thought the replica rifle was real and fired on the boy because he believed his life and that of his partner were threatened.
The deputies came across Andy shortly after 3 p.m. as he walked by a vacant lot near his home. According to the Sheriff's Office, the deputies saw Andy's replica gun and ordered him to drop it. When the boy turned toward the deputies while still holding the toy gun, Gelhaus fired.
Gelhaus realized that Andy's gun was an air gun that shot plastic pellets only after the boy had been mortally wounded, the Sheriff's Office said.  http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Slain-Sonoma-County-teen-s-family-sues-4954650.php
Right around the time this kid was waving his pretend gun around, there was a school shooting in Sparks, NV. where a teacher was killed.  So, the idea that the cops should just leave the kid alone makes no sense.
Plus, the kid was using an altered toy, where there is supposed to be a orange tip on the gun to indicate it was a toy.  The parents should have known this.
Finally, the parents apparently never taught their kid to respect the cops, especially when the cops their guns drawn.  This is a failure of the parents.
The parents cost the kid his life but they want the taxpayers to shell out money for the parent's mistakes of raising their kid.
My guess, the County will settle to avoid court, the parents will get a lot of money and live high off the hog because of their dead kid, because after all, it's all about the money, not parental responsibility.