Cop Thought "I Don't Remember" Would Save Him - Then The Lawyer Pulled Out His Partner's Report

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 beach. He stopped breathing 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 legs - he answered again and again: "I don't remember." "Have you always been this forgetful?" the family's attorney asked - "you're under oath." Then the attorney laid Galbo's supplemental report next to one written by his former training officer, Gary Lovette. The same paragraph. Word for word. The same punctuation. The same misspelled word: "proned." Galbo swore he wrote his report on his own and that the match was a total coincidence. A grand jury declined to bring charges, but the City of Key West settled with the Eimers family for nine hundred thousand dollars. This is the deposition - in his own words. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:57 Charles Eimers - 61 3:03 On the beach 5:55 Two reports 9:07 Settled for 900K DISCLAIMER: Commentary and analysis of a matter of public record. Footage is from a publicly available videotaped deposition in Eimers v. City of Key West et al. (U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida), used for news, commentary and education under fair use. All individuals are presumed innocent unless proven guilty. Nothing here is legal advice; viewers should form their own conclusions.