Cop Thought “I Don’t Remember” Would Save Him - Then The Lawyer Pulled Out His Partner’s Report
Two police reports. The same paragraph, word for word, down to the punctuation. The same last sentence. The same misspelled word: "proned." The officer swore under oath that he wrote his report on his own - and that the match was a coincidence.
On Thanksgiving morning, November 28, 2013, after a traffic stop in Key West, Florida, police officers held 61-year-old Michigan retiree Charles Eimers face down on the sand of a beach. He became unresponsive and died in the hospital days later. His family sued the City of Key West and several officers in federal court for excessive force. On November 7, 2014, Officer Nicholas Galbo sat for a videotaped deposition.
Asked where Eimers' hands were, whether officers were kneeling or standing, who was holding his arms - he answered again and again: "I don't remember." "Have you always been this forgetful?" the family's attorney asked. Then the attorney laid Galbo's supplemental report next to one written a day earlier by Officer Gary Lovette, his former training officer.
On Thanksgiving morning, November 28, 2013, after a traffic stop in Key West, Florida, police officers held 61-year-old Michigan retiree Charles Eimers face down on the sand of a beach. He became unresponsive and died in the hospital days later. His family sued the City of Key West and several officers in federal court for excessive force. On November 7, 2014, Officer Nicholas Galbo sat for a videotaped deposition.
Asked where Eimers' hands were, whether officers were kneeling or standing, who was holding his arms - he answered again and again: "I don't remember." "Have you always been this forgetful?" the family's attorney asked. Then the attorney laid Galbo's supplemental report next to one written a day earlier by Officer Gary Lovette, his former training officer.
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