Actually once their in your custody - especially if you are detaining someone or ther safety, thy become your responsibility. A drunk bloodying his own nose and a suicidal kid using a gun missed on your search are very different.C-dub wrote:I don't think so. There are many drunks that start slamming their heads into doors and windows or kicking them. Sometimes they break them and then they are charged with the destruction and have to pay for it.Ericstac wrote:Once searched, handcuffed and stuffed in the police car isn't the kid under the police responsibility and whatever happens to him after that is on them?
Now, I suppose a democrat would argue that it is the police officer's fault for putting them into the back of their patrol car in the first place and they should be responsible for what ever happened.
I doubt they will ultimately be held criminally responsible, but I'm sure that's a grievous policy violation.
