Posted on 07/01/2015 10:15:41 AM PDT by bestintxas
The Obama administration is fast-tracking a huge payout to the victims of the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting, giving the families of those slain millions more than victims from Sandy Hook, Boston, and other mass murders.
The White House will send $29 million to South Carolina in the wake of the June 17 shooting that left nine people dead in a historic black church, according to a Reuters report. All of the victims were black, and it was called a hate crime in the hours following it.
According to Reuters, a chunk of the $29 million — which was allocated as part of the government's national Crime Victim Assistance Formula Grant program — can help provide services to the families of those killed. Among the dead was Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who also served as a South Carolina state senator.
The $29 million payout is significantly more than what was given to the victims of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting ($2.9 million); the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting ($1.5 million); and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing ($8.3 million).
The Department of Justice press release detailing the payout for the Aurora victims read, "The total number of victims of this crime is more than 1,500. This includes the twelve killed, sixty-nine wounded and their families, other people in the theater complex at that time, people evacuated from an apartment complex where explosive devices were discovered, and first responders to the emergency."
The release pertaining to the Sandy Hook shooting makes no mention of the number of victims, but the massacre did result in the death of 20 children and seven adults. The shooter, Adam Lanza, shot and killed himself after the shooting.
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There’s not a single “Horatio Bunce” amongst them.
Many can accept large financial windfalls, like these and inheritances, but far fewer have the self-discipline to keep their new fortunes and make them grow.
why when i click back to the original article it calls the shooting a hoax?
How much to the soldier’s families killed by Iraq?
ditto that
They’re content-of-character must’ve been better.
This is just the beginning. Next year it will be reparations for the families of victims of slavery.
Uh where is the payout when a white is killed by the Amish.
It’s coming. I can feel it. Looking forward to it.
More handouts for the blacks. Whites leaving neighborhoods in droves Addthis to the billions already given to the handout babies. Thats our money given to the beggers. Next President and congress should take back homes and money from the handout babies.
I guess Obama is working on putting the Life Insurance Companies out of Business now.
Do they just throw Darts at a Board to figure out how much Money to reward to Victim’s Families?
How many People are Murdered in this Country every day?
Is every Victim’s Family getting a Government Check now?
Total Insanity and absolutely nobody in D.C. standing up to such misuse of Taxpayer Funds. I guess Charity is an outdated concept.
Yeah I know, speak up ad you are an uncaring POS Bigot, whatever. It would be a Career ending move in the Age of Empathy versus the Constitution.
Empathy using Public Funds is Theft.
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