West
Two weeks ago, Monique West, the mother of TyâRese West â the Racine 18-year-old shot and killed after fleeing from a Mount Pleasant police sergeant who was trying to stop him for riding a bicycle without a light at about 1 a.m. on June 15, 2019 â sat in the same room as the officer who killed her son.
In the same room
Giese
The unique situation occurred because, under U.S. law, all parties involved in a civil lawsuit â like the one Monique West has filed against Mount Pleasant Police Sgt. Eric Giese and the Mount Pleasant Police Department â are allowed to sit in on depositions of the other party; a deposition is essentially an out-of-court sworn interview of a witness in a case. As such, Giese could sit in on Monique Westâs deposition if he wants to when it comes along.