No doubt a lawsuit is coming, but how do you collect a settlement from a city that is bankrupt?
If there wasn't some skivvy chance to make money on this, there wouldn't be any lawyers lurking.
What is amazing is the restraint in the major media to hasten to say, 'we must wait for their day in court'. CNN has gone for the sensational, but most media outlets are bending over backward to give NO cops an excuse. I particularly liked the one coming from Nagans' office, "The police are exhausted". I agree, from beating the sh*t out of innocent citizens. What a world.
Well, one could attach some of the property the city still owns. City Hall, for instance.
Good question. I suspect that incidents like this (as well as looting and complicity in looting, and highly selective law enforcement by New Orleans' "Finest") will cause a municipal bankruptcy filing, in order to protect any assets they may still have.
Maybe he will accept payment in school buses.
Or, they could sell some of the stolen Caddies, and give him the proceeds.
Guarantee him, and his heirs and assigns, a perpetual seat on a Levee Board, with all the rights, privileges, and graft appertaining thereunto?