Baltimore County police face wrongful death lawsuit
The mother of an Essex man who was shot to death two years ago by Baltimore County police officers has filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit against the county government and six members of the force, The Sun's Nick Madigan reports.
Gwendolyn Cann contends that her son, Taevon G. Cann, who was 25 at the time, died as a result of excessive force when officers fired more than 70 bullets at him at a gas station on Feb. 29, 2008.
"The barrage of bullets was so intense that they not only took his life but also destroyed his automobile," says the wrongful-death suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The suit contends that as Cann was "succumbing from his wounds, one of the defendants reloaded his weapon and shot Mr. Cann in the back of the head."
Gwendolyn Cann contends that her son, Taevon G. Cann, who was 25 at the time, died as a result of excessive force when officers fired more than 70 bullets at him at a gas station on Feb. 29, 2008.
"The barrage of bullets was so intense that they not only took his life but also destroyed his automobile," says the wrongful-death suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The suit contends that as Cann was "succumbing from his wounds, one of the defendants reloaded his weapon and shot Mr. Cann in the back of the head."
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It has been a long known fact within the Baltimore County Police force that Essex cops are not typical Baltimore County cops. They operate under their own set of rules. One officer told me about a severe beating that was being investigated and every one of the officers being interviewed by IID agreed to a false set of facts before being interviewed. Essex is a tough place to be a cop but abuse such as 70 shots fired on a man, reloading and shooting him in the back of the head is not typical police procedure, unless it is in Essex.
Posted by: Jim | August 17, 2010 3:16 PM
Anyone ever go to the MD Case search and see what type of people we are dealing with in these stories?
Give it a try sometime:
http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/inquiry/inquiry-index.jsp
This guy had a record dating back to 1999. Conviction for carrying a gun and dealing drugs among other things.
Now - the REAL question we all need to ask - especially Peter Hermann is why these kinda people never serve time and are back out being thugs and gangsters, preying on society?
Seriously - why was the guy on the street?
Now as far as a LEO executing a shot-up perp, no one in their right mind would condone that type of action IF it is proved to have happened.
To give whatever version of "my baby didn't do nothing" is in favor and sue is folly in light of the guy's demonstrated issues with obeying the law/resisting arrest, carry a gun, selling drugs . . . .
He didn't leave honors class and start a life of crime on a whim. He was a punk and getting shot up wasn't really hard to foresee.
So LE got him instead of another gangsta; it was bound to happen.
PETER - why aren't you asking why these criminals are on the street my friend? PLEASE start asking this question until it becomes a mantra of every citizen. They deserve to have an answer
Posted by: Maryland Shooter | August 19, 2010 10:41 AM
They are on the street beacuse defense lawyers are in business to circumvent the law, not see that justice is served. Our laws are written to protect the rights of every citizen, including the bad ones, from a police society that the revoluntionary war was fought to save us from. Judges, are gods on earth, power drunk and totally unaccountable for their decisions and once were defense attornies themselves. The founding fathers never remotely imagined the United States circa 2010 and our current plight to rights protection in 1776 when only one person in 100000 was in jail. This particular guy faced the inevitable, true, many more will, and ever one of them have mothers who will swear their baby didnt get a fair shake.
Posted by: Jim | August 19, 2010 11:57 PM