How fucking stupid can people be? I wonder if they, along with the parents of the other degenerates in the car, would have chipped in to pay the cops funeral expenses if they had succeeded in killing the cop? The kid driving should be charged with murder of his buddy and attempted murder of the other kids and of course, the cop. Maybe HIS parents can help pay the funeral expenses. Not that I really mean to advocate violence but Rankin is a major league scumbag lawyer and deserves a shot to the head. What a parasite.
Victim's step-dad wants New West police to pay for shot son's funeral
Sixteen-year-old Kyle Tait killed by a police officer while sitting in a stolen SUV on Aug. 23
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Kevin Webb wants New Westminster police to pay for his stepson's funeral after an officer shot and killed the 16-year-old as he was sitting in a stolen SUV.
"It's a large expense for us right now," said Webb, of the $7,000 bill for Kyle Tait's funeral.
The teen died Aug. 23 when Const. Todd Sweet, a 15-year New Westminster Police Department veteran, fired three rounds into the stolen GMC Yukon. The 18-year-old driver was hit in the hand.
Police alleged the SUV was ramming a police car, with a rookie officer trapped inside.
Webb said he was disturbed to discover Sweet has had two civil actions against him, including one filed on the day of the shooting alleging he assaulted a 70-year-old pensioner. Sweet, as spokesman for the B.C. Federation of Police Officers, had also called for a judicial and police crackdown on the drivers of stolen vehicles.
"It's been tough," Webb said. "It happened nine weeks ago yesterday. My wife is still really upset about it all and so am I."
The SUV was involved in an early-morning police chase. The driver sped away from a police roadblock at the north end of the Pattullo Bridge. Sweet and other officers cornered the stolen vehicle on a residential street in Burnaby after a five-minute pursuit.
The teen's family has hired Vancouver lawyer Phil Rankin.
"I've requested that, for compassionate reasons, the City of New Westminster and the police board should pay the funeral expenses of approximately $7,000 because it's the right thing to do," Rankin told The Province. "Not because it's the legal thing to do, not because they have to do it, but because it's the right thing to do. They killed a kid. Obviously, they were trying to kill the driver and they got the wrong guy."
Rankin said the family has very little money.
"The family deserves something," he said. "They had to scratch together everything to pay for that funeral."
Ian James William Campbell, the alleged driver, is facing six charges, including one count of criminal negligence causing Kyle's death and assaulting a police officer with a weapon -- the SUV.
There are three active probes into the incident, a spokesman for the B.C. police complaint commissioner confirmed yesterday.
The Saanich Police Department is heading the external police investigation into Kyle's death under the Police Act. The primary criminal probe is being conducted by the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said complaint commissioner spokesman Bruce Brown.
The commissioner's office is also looking into the matter, but its investigation will be suspended if criminal charges are laid against Sweet or any other police officer, said Brown.
Kyle was riding in the front passenger seat of the stolen SUV when he was shot. Three other passengers in the back -- two 14-year-old girls and a 15-year-old boy -- were not hit.
Victim's step-dad wants New West police to pay for shot son's funeral
Sixteen-year-old Kyle Tait killed by a police officer while sitting in a stolen SUV on Aug. 23
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Kevin Webb wants New Westminster police to pay for his stepson's funeral after an officer shot and killed the 16-year-old as he was sitting in a stolen SUV.
"It's a large expense for us right now," said Webb, of the $7,000 bill for Kyle Tait's funeral.
The teen died Aug. 23 when Const. Todd Sweet, a 15-year New Westminster Police Department veteran, fired three rounds into the stolen GMC Yukon. The 18-year-old driver was hit in the hand.
Police alleged the SUV was ramming a police car, with a rookie officer trapped inside.
Webb said he was disturbed to discover Sweet has had two civil actions against him, including one filed on the day of the shooting alleging he assaulted a 70-year-old pensioner. Sweet, as spokesman for the B.C. Federation of Police Officers, had also called for a judicial and police crackdown on the drivers of stolen vehicles.
"It's been tough," Webb said. "It happened nine weeks ago yesterday. My wife is still really upset about it all and so am I."
The SUV was involved in an early-morning police chase. The driver sped away from a police roadblock at the north end of the Pattullo Bridge. Sweet and other officers cornered the stolen vehicle on a residential street in Burnaby after a five-minute pursuit.
The teen's family has hired Vancouver lawyer Phil Rankin.
"I've requested that, for compassionate reasons, the City of New Westminster and the police board should pay the funeral expenses of approximately $7,000 because it's the right thing to do," Rankin told The Province. "Not because it's the legal thing to do, not because they have to do it, but because it's the right thing to do. They killed a kid. Obviously, they were trying to kill the driver and they got the wrong guy."
Rankin said the family has very little money.
"The family deserves something," he said. "They had to scratch together everything to pay for that funeral."
Ian James William Campbell, the alleged driver, is facing six charges, including one count of criminal negligence causing Kyle's death and assaulting a police officer with a weapon -- the SUV.
There are three active probes into the incident, a spokesman for the B.C. police complaint commissioner confirmed yesterday.
The Saanich Police Department is heading the external police investigation into Kyle's death under the Police Act. The primary criminal probe is being conducted by the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said complaint commissioner spokesman Bruce Brown.
The commissioner's office is also looking into the matter, but its investigation will be suspended if criminal charges are laid against Sweet or any other police officer, said Brown.
Kyle was riding in the front passenger seat of the stolen SUV when he was shot. Three other passengers in the back -- two 14-year-old girls and a 15-year-old boy -- were not hit.
