Family of Man Killed by Cop Balks at Sheriff's $314K Bill

When pedestrian Blane Land was struck and killed by a police officer in Jacksonville, Fla., in May, his family immediately began digging into the officer's prior conduct. 

As it turned out, Officer Tim James had been investigated at least 11 times by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and would a month later be arrested on charges of beating a teen in handcuffs.

 To Land family attorney John M. Phillips, it looked like officers knew they'd "kept a bad officer on the force," per the Florida Times-Union. But in what Phillips says is an apparent attempt to hide that fact, he notes his request for public records about James' work history was met with an outrageous $314,000 bill—one of as many as three to come—which surprised even a former JSO public relations officer.

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