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Broward schools forged a path to give $26 million to the victims of the Parkland shooting — turning a negligence case into a civil-rights dispute, newly released documents reveal.
Deputy Adams Lin claimed during the trial that he thought Dontrell Stephens was reaching for a gun, when he shot the man as he rode his bike across traffic. While Stephens was awarded $22 million, he wound up getting $6 million.
Is when i was firing. stephens did not have a gun. he had a cell phone in one of his hands, which the deputy said he never saw. yet an attorney representing lin says stephens' alleged hand movements justify the shooting. >> you have less than a second to decide what you're going to do. in this case it turned out to be a phone and dontrell stephens got shot. if it turned out to be a gun, officer lin might be dead. >> if officer lin under the circumstances presented here was afraid for his life then he was afraid without justification and he was afraid unreasonably. >> and an internal investigat...
Stephens' attorney says they plan to continue to pursue the civil lawsuit. victor and christi? >> all right, elena thank you so much. let's talk about it with scott bolden defense attorney and managing partner with reed smith. the incident caught on camera there's the small portion we don't see. you just heard there from stephens' attorney who said if officer lin was afraid he was afraid without justification and unreasonably. do you agree with that? >> well i'm not involved in the case but thank you for having me. the reality on all of this is is that those four seconds is only dontrell and t...
Phone. but if you look at the video, and i've looked at it point by point, dontrell stephens was on the phone when he was being pursued by police over a traffic stop. he took the phone from his ear, put it in his right hand right in front of the police officer as he got out of the car, because it's on the camera itself. as a result there will be some credibility issues as to regard the police officer acted reasonably or not. >> the officer said it was the movement with the left hand that officer's attorney says it was the movement of the left hand that got him quote pretty worried there. let's...