Government,
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Jul. 15, 2021
Orange County pays teen $195K for deputy’s gun threat
“Obviously we can’t make it a condition in any settlement like this that the officer be fired,” said plaintiffs’ attorney Eric V. Traut. “My hope is that he will not be able to subject anyone else to this kind of conduct in the future.”
Orange County agreed to pay $195,000 to the family of a teen forced to the ground by an off-duty sheriff's deputy who threatened to shoot the boy in the face at a skatepark.
Videos taken by bystanders showed Deputy Sheriff Michael Thalken pulled a gun on a group of teens and threatened 16-year-old Max Chance III as he lay on the ground at Ralph's Skate Court in San Clemente in 2019.
Max's family s...
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