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| Subject: Power mad statis pigs fired 120 shots at driver Wed Feb 06, 2008 4:00 am | |
| Winston Hayes was cornered in Compton in 2005 after a car chase. Officers fired 120 times.
Winston Hayes knows it was probably the "biggest mistake" of his life when he led Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies on a low-speed chase through a Compton neighborhood three years ago: He was driving under the influence, evading arrest and was shot at 120 times by deputies during a wild incident captured by a freelance cameraman and televised on newscasts nationwide.
"Mr. Hayes is accepting full responsibility for the mistakes he made that evening," Hayes' attorney, Brian Dunn, told a jury Tuesday at the opening of a civil trial on the incident.
What Hayes, 46, now wants is for the 10 deputies who opened fire to pay him for their own actions May 9, 2005.
Jurors are being asked to consider whether the deputies' misconduct and lack of fire control was so egregious that it overshadowed the crimes Hayes committed.
County officials have conceded that mistakes were made. After the shooting, Sheriff Lee Baca said the use of deadly force was excessive and handed out suspensions ranging from two to 15 days.
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These viscious scum should all be exterminated! Together with their superiors... to thoroughly clean out "the force." _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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