Posted on 06/23/2017 10:30:00 AM PDT by TigerClaws
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The insurance company for the city of Ferguson, Missouri, paid $1.5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Michael Brown's parents, the city attorney said Friday.
Attorney Apollo Carey disclosed the amount in an email in response to an open records request. The settlement of the federal lawsuit was announced Tuesday, but financial details were not initially released.
Carey declined further comment on the settlement. A phone message seeking comment from the attorney for the family, Anthony Gray, was not immediately returned.
Brown, 18, was black and unarmed when he was fatally shot by white officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing, but the shooting led to months of protests in the St. Louis suburb.
Wilson resigned in November 2014, soon after a St. Louis County grand jury decided not to indict him. The U.S. Department of Justice found no grounds to prosecute Wilson, but the shooting led to a Justice Department investigation that resulted in a consent agreement requiring Ferguson to make significant changes to address racial bias in its police department and municipal court.
Michael Brown Sr. and Lezley McSpadden sued the city, former Police Chief Tom Jackson and Wilson in 2015, citing a police culture hostile to black residents and claiming Wilson used excessive force.
Ferguson, Jackson and Wilson denied the allegations.
The parents also argued that the death of their son deprived them of financial support through his future potential wages.
U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber approved the settlement but disclosed nothing about the amount, saying only that it was "fair and reasonable compensation for this wrongful death claim and is in the best interests of each Plaintiff," with the money to be split between the parents.
Webber also wrote that the agreement "shall remain sealed by this Court and shall be considered a closed record" because disclosure of the information "could jeopardize the safety of individuals involved in this matter, whether as witnesses, parties, or investigators."
Settlements involving public money and public entities like cities are typically open under Missouri law, but Webber wrote that the value of opening the record "is outweighed by the adverse impact to Plaintiffs." He did not elaborate.
Now taxpayers should sue the family to recover the money.
In my state it’s 63/37.......
They’re headed for the casino as we speak. Bums are bums.
> Brown, 18, was black and unarmed when he was fatally shot by white officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014.
WBRC needs to have their FCC license revoked.
the cop can’t find a job
Ha ha ha -
Like he was already giving his parents a cut of everything he stole
That’s nothing. Tamir Rice’s mother was sitting in a Cleveland jail while Tamir (a 12 year old) wearing a hoody and waving around a lookalike pistol. Police responded after receiving a police dispatch call “of a male black sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people” in a city park. A caller reported that a male was pointing “a pistol” at random people in the Cudell Recreation Center.
The officers reported that upon their arrival, Rice reached towards a gun in his waistband. He was shot dead with one shot. Baby Momma got $9 million after our so-called mayor apologized to Baby Momma. Not good enough, says Baby Momma. She wants the cops fired.
Talk about a lottery winner.
It was all an Obama slush fund scheme for BLM, I suppose.
Let us stop this racket.
The attorney will get $500,000.
The family will get 1 million.
My bet is it will be gone in a year.
He is literally worth more to them dead than he ever was or would have been, alive. Cold but true.
This will be the first and only thing Michael Brown ever did to financially support his family.
Sooner ... First the taxman takes a cut, then attorney takes a cut, a “little” partying and there’s not much left.
There was this black dude on the internet cussing out black boys for being such stupid idiot doing their Knock Out games and other stupid crap, showing a video of one of them acting like a jacka$$ while girls laughed because he was so stupid and thought he was showing off.
He was saying that the bottom line is that these girls are part of the system, they are taken care of while these idiots ruin their own lives without a future, and in this particular case, worse, will collect millions from their death by cop.
Let’s see, attorneys get about $500K that leaves $1 mil to split between mom and dad( I think they are divorced) Within a 6 months they will blow through that.
And it still seems like a lot, but if you consider the loss of "earnings" from the future progeny that will now not be conceived (not to mention the public assistance these descendants would have received), the family settled cheap.
It may not look like it initially, but the lawful taxpayer comes out ahead.
Hmmm, perhaps I'm not the cynic I have assumed, and am actually a "glass half full" type of personality.
That’s an ebonic , liberal fascist settlement. The City should be ashamed of itself.
If I lived there, I assure you I would move out of town. No way I’d be paying property taxes in that city.
Don’t forget the attorney will get at least half also!!!! Then half in taxes they won’t be left with much 6 months they’ll be broke again!!
The family should be fined 1.5 million for breeding a filthy criminal animal and letting it run loose on a decent populace.
What’s the cut for the legal team?
Probably 1/3. They ( family ) look at this a “ social justice” and getting back at “The Man”
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