This was a great apology and it means alot to me and to many others. This settlement is the next best thing to the officer who pulled the trigger actually being held criminally responsible. On that note, when is ex-officer long going to BE A MAN AND MAKE HIS OWN APOLOGY? teenagers are indicted for manslaughter all the time for driving to fast and causing fatal accidents, why does this guy get to walk because he "mistook the sound of a battering ram for gunfire." Had he not heard that sound a thousand times before? I dont know how he lives with what he has done to Peyton's family and friends who continue to miss him, every day of our lives. -Ryan D Mills-