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Eric Garner Case Is Settled by New York City for $5.9 Million
NYTimes ^ | 07/13/2015 | J David Goodman

Posted on 07/13/2015 4:23:40 PM PDT by GIdget2004

New York City reached a settlement on Monday with the family of Eric Garner, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve the claim over his killing by the police last July on Staten Island, according to a lawyer representing the family.

The agreement, reached days before the deadline to file suit in the death, appeared to be among the biggest reached so far as part of a strategy by the city comptroller, Scott C. Stringer, to settle major civil rights claims even before a lawsuit is filed. Mr. Stringer has said the aim is to save taxpayers the expense of a drawn-out trial and to give those bringing the suits and their families a measure of closure.

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1 posted on 07/13/2015 4:23:40 PM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

That’s a very expensive loosey...


2 posted on 07/13/2015 4:25:57 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: GIdget2004

stupid good mercy grief.

No wonder the nation is bankrupt with idiots that would award something like this, and states that are attached to the more reasonable states are being dragged down to the bottom of the ocean.

good freaking grief.


3 posted on 07/13/2015 4:26:57 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: FreeAtlanta

sorry, just realized how jumbled up my post was. I am a little angry at this.


4 posted on 07/13/2015 4:27:55 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: EEGator

It’s fair. Death by the taxman is disturbing.


5 posted on 07/13/2015 4:28:19 PM PDT by grania
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To: grania

I agree. Nanny state BS laws caused the initial problem.


6 posted on 07/13/2015 4:31:06 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: GIdget2004

Big fat potential heart attack victim commits crime....resists arrest....has heart attack and dies. So it’s the cops fault and the city has to pay $6 Large to the family. Cue the Wilhelm Scream!


7 posted on 07/13/2015 4:33:27 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: GIdget2004
Mr. Stringer has said the aim is to save taxpayers the expense of a drawn-out trial...

NYC taxpayers: "That warm stream you feel down your back? It's raining..."

8 posted on 07/13/2015 4:35:17 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: GIdget2004

#blacklivesarevaluable


9 posted on 07/13/2015 4:35:22 PM PDT by umgud (glad I wasn't aborted)
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To: GIdget2004

Ghetto Lottery, For the Win!!


10 posted on 07/13/2015 4:36:18 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: GIdget2004

I don’t believe in the concept of “closure.”


11 posted on 07/13/2015 4:36:35 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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i give the family credit...if anti-semite al sharpton was involved they would’ve sued for ten times that amount...


12 posted on 07/13/2015 4:38:15 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Finally, someone else who agrees with me on this.


13 posted on 07/13/2015 4:42:43 PM PDT by oblomov
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There is absolutely NO WAY this scumbag would have EVER been worth this much alive. If he worked everyday of his life he would NEVER have made that much money!!!
14 posted on 07/13/2015 4:44:25 PM PDT by amigatec (2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
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It will take Hizzonner the Mayor a long time to recoup the losses from THAT fiasco.


15 posted on 07/13/2015 4:44:54 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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It’s the same reason I don’t go to viewings at funeral homes. I definitely go to funerals, but I have no desire to have my last memory of a friend or family member as dead meat in a box. I prefer to remember the last time we joked together, etc..


16 posted on 07/13/2015 4:50:23 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: GIdget2004
cause the city wanted it's 25cents in taxes...
17 posted on 07/13/2015 4:52:01 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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How much did the families of those murdered by illegal aliens get?

If Garner were white, the family would be suing for the next 10 years.

I do not believe nor support the idea that police are ordered or encouraged to arrest people for selling untaxed cigarettes. That is not a crime to be imprisoned for.

This is a white guilt, liberal surrender settlement.


18 posted on 07/13/2015 4:53:21 PM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Depends. I last saw my best friend unembalmed, not made up and with lividity clearly showing.

Still, I’m glad I did.


19 posted on 07/13/2015 4:58:53 PM PDT by null and void (We've always been at war with Iceageia!)
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New York City wanted more government, they got more government.

1. New York City Mayor Bloomberg seeks to ban tobacco use in NYC, so the city raises taxes sky-high on cigarettes to make cigarettes scarce.

2. Scarcity creates a black market for cigarettes. Street peddlers step in to fill the gap and avoid taxation.

3. Police commission vows to 'crack down' on unlicensed peddlers of untaxed cigarettes, so they send roving undercover patrols of NYPD policemen around busting scofflaws.

4. Of course, the police manage to asphyxiate a street peddler in the course of lawful arrest. The NYC grand jury chooses not to indict, so a NYC anarchist strikes back against perceived racism by murdering two NYPD patrolmen before committing suicide.

5. Ultimately, New York City settles the case for $5.9 million paid to the police victim's relatives rather than the $75 million they sought -- reasoning to "save taxpayers of New York City the expense of a drawn-out trial" (unquote) that they'd almost certainly lose.

No word from former Mayor Michael Bloomberg on whether the taxes outweighed the benefits of one citizen and two policemen killed in exchange for a trying to make tobacco scarce.

Today, Bloomberg goes around the entire nation trying to make firearms scarce. Because, golly, what with NYC policemen getting murdered by guns and all. His brilliant ideas for NYC is likewise good for the nation, he reasons.

20 posted on 07/13/2015 5:01:34 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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