I don’t understand. We have an illegal alien from Mexico sneak into our country (for the second time) Mr. Nicolas Solorio Vasquez (Northwest Briefly, June 7). He is stopped by a young Washington State Trooper near Pasco. So for the want of anything better to do, Mr. Vasquez shoots and kills Trooper J. Saunders.
He is caught but because Mr. Vasquez has no money and can’t speak English, Franklin County is forced to spend almost a million dollars to defend him. Then Mr. Vasquez claims he was “roughed up” when he was arrested and sues Franklin County. He is awarded $7,000.
I must have missed something, it seems that we paid this person $7,000 for killing a state trooper. Can somebody explain this to me?
Snohomish
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