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Newsbrief:
Tennessee
Town
Pays
for
Drug
Raid
Killing
5/31/02
In October 2000, DRCNet reported
on a rash of police killings during drug raids gone bad. Among them
was the case of John Adams, 62, a black resident of Lebanon, TN, who was
shot and killed by a police SWAT team raiding the wrong house on October
4 of that year. After masked officers burst into his home, Adams
fired a shotgun at the intruders before they shot and killed him as his
wife Lorine, 72, looked on in disbelief.
Lebanon Police Lt. Steve
Nokes, head of the town's narcotics unit, was fired from the police department
and indicted on charges of criminal responsibility for reckless homicide,
tampering or fabricating evidence and aggravated perjury. He was
acquitted of all charges in June 2001.
But the Lebanon Daily Times
reported on May 24 that the city of Lebanon will pay at least $400,000
to Lorine Adams. She has received a lump sum payment of $200,000
and will receive $1,675 per month for the rest of her life. If she
lives 15 years, the total pay-out would reach more than half a million
dollars. The city also paid John Adams' medical bills of $45,000
and funeral expenses of $5,804. The city's insurance carrier will
pay for the settlement. No word yet on Lebanon's new insurance rates.
See http://www.drcnet.org/wol/156.html#policeshootings
for DRCNet's October 2000 report on bad drug raids.
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Issue #239, 5/31/02
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