Damn good research citizen, thanks! 2 thumbs up
My pleasure.
I'm kinda glad TheTruth posted about the settlement in the civil suit. Until I read that article, I had already decided it was a bad shooting just because Geer was unarmed.
Really, that is the crucial point. That Torres then lied about his reason for shooting, while highly significant, does not change the significance of the crucial fact that Geer was unarmed.
However, having checked into things a very little bit, I think I will dig further.
You see, I've got this implied fact from that very little researching that the common-law wife only called police because he was tossing her stuff in the yard after she told him she'd signed a lease on an apartment or something--a split or separation they had been discussing for a while. They had two daughters and twenty years or more of relationship.
So, my question is, what were the cops doing there in the first place? Why were they working on getting him to come out of his own house when no violence had been alleged?
It sounds as if he was shot during a consensual encounter that Geer didn't know he could maybe end legally just by closing the door.
Was it his home, or jointly owned? How did the police determine the wife wouldn't be allowed to just carry her stuff back inside after he cooled down. Were the police just operating on the mindset that he might pose a threat of domestic violence and wanted to Terry detain him for more questioning? Why didn't that questioning happen at the door? Why did the police get themselves wrapped up in trying to get him out of the house?
I don't know the answers to those questions. And, of course, the answer to a couple would dictate how things would proceed from there.
But, now I'm getting real curious. I just have a feeling that Torres' shot might not be at the bottom of the situation. Maybe I've watched too many air-crash investigation shows--they almost always find the crash was not a single mistake, but a series of avoidable factors that made it that much easier for a fatal final result to occur. I can't help but wonder where the bottom is in the Geer killing. I just can't help but wonder if Torres' shot was just the final event in a series that started earlier with mindset, procedure, assumptions, and so forth.