Sorry to again respond to this one, but I did a deeper dive on this because I had some questions that needed answered.
Yes, there is a lawsuit pending of course and we all knew there would be when the family had an attorney a few days after the incident. The lawsuit names the township, the police chief-who was in no way involved here, the police officer,-both of whom should have had qualified immunity from a personal lawsuit against their personal finances, and Kroger (because they have very deep pockets) and the employee that told the cops and pointed her out. The lawsuit claims that the Kroger employee was not a loss prevention officer and was thus not permitted to call or notify police of a shoplifting. It also claims that by pursuing the suspect and notifying armed police officers, the employee “escalated the situation that the employee should have known would lead to death.”
That lawyer has already blatantly lied. He said the officers had absolutely no right to approach her because there was no evidence that she had committed a crime and he stated to the media that young DID NOT COMMIT ANY CRIMES AND PUT THE ALCOHOL BACK AND DIS NOT LEAVE THE STORE WITH IT: This has been proven false in two ways-first, we have the video where she conceals the alcohol. I actually don’t know for sure about Ohio, but most states consider it shoplifting if you conceal items even if you haven’t left the store yet; but the video shows her walking out of the store and at no point did she stop and put the alcohol back or did she stop and put the alcohol down before leaving like the shitbag vulture of a lawyer claimed.
Second point-she intended to steal from the word go. First, she took off her license plate before going into the Kroger lot so she and her car couldn’t be identified via camera or an employee. She also parks in a handicapped parking spot because it was close so she could easily flee:. And she went into the store with a group of females all of wh stole alcohol as well.
The grand jury indicted officer connor grubb despite having the videos-the body cameras of both officers plus a video from the Kroger store that shows grubb being lifted off his feet when she drives into him.
Because of the indictment-despite his being innocent until proven guilty-2 things happened. 1. The township put the officer on unpaid leave when he was initially put on paid leave while it was being investigated. They also cited budgetary issues as well. 2. Because he was now on unpaid leave, he lost his qualified immunity-more on that in a moment.
An Ohio court denied officer grubb be protected under Marsy’s law. I was just talking about marsys law in another thread like two days ago or something-can’t quite recall; but anyway, the law basically guarantees victims rights like the right to a speedy trial so defense can’t wear down victims and witnesses, the right to remain silent as a victim in regard to peripheral crimes, and it protects the victims identity-especially children and rape victims, but a hot topic has been whether police officers identities can be protected and can officers be considered victims while on the job and thus protected by marsys law. The police dept refused to identify the officers because grubb was hit by the car and the other officers arm was inside the car when she started to drive. Well, in all its wisdom, this court ruled that grubb was not a victim of any crimes despite her hitting him with the car and lifting him off of his feet, so the dept had to release their names-it wouldn’t have lasted long anyway since he was indicted-but found not guilty of all charges.
Had grubb been convicted of any of the charges against him, he would have faced a MINIMUM of 15 years in prison. Fucking ridiculous. It’s been 2.5 years almost and grubb is still not back to work and only recently (November after the acquittal) was put back on paid leave. Dude has been in limbo with no income for over two years-fucking ridiculous.
Anyway, that is all.