sometimes the cops are just too afraid to qualify as 'heroes' as we're constantly told they are; 

San Francisco, CA — After a run-in with a Placer County Deputy in 2018, Silicon Valley software engineer, Samuel Kolb was shot in the back and now lacks bowel and bladder control, cannot engage in normal sexual activity and lives with chronic pain. Prior to his son calling 911 for help with his father’s medical condition, Kolb had committed no crime and was only in need of medical attention.

The officer who shot Kolb inside a North Lake Tahoe rental cabin — twice — was never held accountable. For this reason, Placer County taxpayers just paid out a record $9.9 million to settle the family’s lawsuit.

“There’s a measure of relief in not having to go through this and not having to put my family through any more legal challenges. But I would trade all the money plus interest to have my old life back, to not have gone through this and put my family through this, to have full use of my body. No amount of money makes up for that,” Kolb said.

Kolb suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy which can cause people to feel a sudden sense of fear, anxiety, anger or sadness with its onset. Before that fateful night on Jan. 14, 2018, Kolb hadn’t had one of these episodes or seizures in 15 years.

While Kolb and his son were on the ski trip in Lake Tahoe, Kolb woke up in the middle of the night and began pacing around the cabin. Realizing something was wrong, he woke up his 16-year-old son and told him to get medical help. 

Kolb’s son then did what he’d been told to do all of his life and picked up the phone and called 911. He reported his father was acting odd and was “in a dream-like state,” according to court documents.........read more........