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By offering the family of Michael Patrick Jacobs Jr. $2 million to settle their lawsuit, the city of Fort Worth isn't admitting that police officer Stephanie Phillips did anything wrong when she inadvertently killed Jacobs with two Taser shocks last year. Still, $2 million says a lot. Assistant City Attorney Gerald Pruitt says it's Fort Worth's largest lawsuit settlement ever in a case involving death or injury.
In fact, it has been clear since the day Jacobs died, April 18, 2009, that something went horribly wrong as officers sought to restrain him. People aren't supposed to die from Taser shocks. As city spokesman Jason Lamers put it in a statement issued Friday when the settlement offer was disclosed, "The City maintains that the Taser is a useful, non-lethal use of force option for our officers...." Maybe Lamers should have added something along the lines of "when those officers are effectively trained and use the Taser with extreme care."
Police went to the Ava Court Drive home that Jacobs shared with his parents, after receiving a complaint that he was causing a disturbance. He had a history of mental illness. Phillips and two other officers surrounded Jacobs in front of the house, and she drew her Taser. Just as the other officers "were about to take Jacobs down," says a medical examiner's report, she fired the Taser's two darts. One dart struck Jacobs on the right side of his lower neck, and the other hit him in the chest.
Thin wires connecting the darts to the Taser delivered 50,000-volt bursts of electricity into Jacobs' body. That's when Phillips' training failed her. She held the trigger for 49 seconds, later saying she was unaware that the Taser would continue to discharge its electric current if she did not release the trigger, the medical examiner's report shows.
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