West Valley City’s police department has settled a lawsuit filed by the family of a 31-year-old man who was shot and killed while handcuffed inside the police station.
alleging her son, Michael Chad Breinholt, was unnecessarily killed and that officers “threatened and antagonized” him before Sgt. Tyler Longman fired the fatal shot.
Breinholt was arrested on Aug. 23, 2019, after he showed up at his girlfriend’s workplace while intoxicated, records show. The officers arrested Breinholt for DUI and they took him to the police department for a more accurate Breathalyzer test. Eventually Longman came to help the officers fill out an electronic warrant to do a blood draw.
Longman then rushed into the room, said, “You’re about to die, my friend,” and shot Breinholt in the head at near point-blank range.Read about the unusual shooting of Michael Chad Breinholt, and watch a video produced by the PBS series FRONTLINE.It marked Longman’s third police shooting. He shot and killed a man in 2007 and another in 2008; the district attorney found his actions to be legally justified in both cases. He has never been disciplined for any of the shootings he’s been involved in.
Neese’s attorneys argued in the lawsuit that while Breinholt did have his hand either on an officer’s duty belt, gun holster or gun handle, it would have been impossible for him to pull out the gun and use it.
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