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City approves $4M payment to Eric Garner’s family
NY Post ^ | August 2, 2017 | Julia Marsh

Posted on 08/03/2017 9:51:13 AM PDT by EinNYC

A Staten Island judge approved nearly $4 million in payments to the family of Eric Garner from a $5.9 million wrongful death settlement with the city, according to lawyers involved in the case. The judge is still weighing how much to award in attorneys fees, according to attorney Lorraine Coyle who represents Garner’s 3-year-old daughter, Legacy Jayleen Garner-Miller. Garner’s youngest child and his widow, Esaw Snipes, will received the largest shares, according to family attorney Jonathan Moore. Snipes will receive around $1.4 million while Garner-Miller will get close to $1.3 million, according to Moore. “I’m very happy that Legacy is going to be getting an increase in funds from what was originally proposed,” Coyle said, adding that the original amount was under $1 million. Garner’s other daughters– Erica and Emerald Snipes– will each be paid $163,600. Their older brother Eric will get $204,00 and their younger brother Emery, who is a minor, will receive $482,000. Finally Garner’s mom Gwen Carr, who is overseeing her late son’s estate, will get $82,0000. The money will be paid out over the next 90 days in the form of annuities or annual installments, Coyle told The Post.

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I am FURIOUS about this! This lowlife do-nothing criminal was worth more dead than alive. He repeatedly broke the law, he ignored police requests, the officer who laid hands on him was acquitted, and his own obesity and asthma were major contributing factors in his death. Yet 4 million TAXPAYER dollars will be handed over to his scum family for a big payday, courtesy of the NYC taxpayer. Even his illegitimate kid from his sidepiece gets in on the bonanza. No wonder our streets look like a war zone, all torn up and littered. No wonder our students have to sit on radiators, because there are no more seats in the classroom. No wonder we have burnt out street lights and pathetic city hospitals. Look what the idiot politicians and incompetent judges do with our money----give it to a family of criminals and welfare mooches.
1 posted on 08/03/2017 9:51:13 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: EinNYC

Ignore police —>> family hits the Lotto.


2 posted on 08/03/2017 9:53:32 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: EinNYC

You see, selling onesie cigarettes in New York, IS a lucrative business


3 posted on 08/03/2017 9:53:52 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: EinNYC

Horrible, just horrible.


4 posted on 08/03/2017 9:57:44 AM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever! “Laughing my #Ossoff)
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To: EinNYC

Eric Garner... was 6 ft 3 350-pounds...

“Garner had been arrested by the NYPD more than thirty times since 1980 on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, and grand larceny...”

Wikipedia


5 posted on 08/03/2017 9:57:44 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EinNYC

Yep. Used to be that ‘crime doesn’t pay’ was a truism.

Not any more.


6 posted on 08/03/2017 9:57:59 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: EinNYC

What crime was he executed for?


7 posted on 08/03/2017 9:59:04 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: EinNYC

No wonder we have burnt out street lights and pathetic city hospitals. Look what the idiot politicians and incompetent judges do with our money——give it to a family of criminals and welfare mooches.

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What goes around - comes around.

2 years. Max. I’ll give these moochers no more than 2 years to blow through this money with nothing left to show for it.

This money will be redistributed back into the system in no time flat.

Then these moochers will be right back in the Welfare System.


8 posted on 08/03/2017 10:01:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Timpanagos1

He executed himself when he refused to obey a lawful order. It’s a simple concept.


9 posted on 08/03/2017 10:02:17 AM PDT by subterfuge (Build the damn wall...)
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To: EinNYC

They will be broke in three years, the money will be back in the city’s coffers and the world will go on.........................


10 posted on 08/03/2017 10:04:00 AM PDT by Red Badger (Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
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To: Timpanagos1

Executed?

Who said he was executed? He died of natural causes.


11 posted on 08/03/2017 10:04:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: EinNYC

It’s just taxpayer money.

You pay taxes to pay off people....like lawyers.


12 posted on 08/03/2017 10:05:13 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: subterfuge

“He executed himself when he refused to obey a lawful order.”

Who should decide what is a lawful order?

And how will you know that the next time a law enforcement officer commands you to do something, that the order is lawful?


13 posted on 08/03/2017 10:10:53 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
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To: EinNYC

They dog piled him. He couldn’t breathe and they wouldn’t stop. It was murder. That thug who killed him had 14 complaints with four being confirmed by an independent review board. So, they gave him a raise and jailed the guy who filmed it.

The $$$ ought to come from the police union.


14 posted on 08/03/2017 10:12:30 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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"Who said he was executed? He died of natural causes."

I thought this was the guy the cops strangled to death for selling cigarettes.

15 posted on 08/03/2017 10:12:31 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Responsibility2nd

Executed?

Who said he was executed?

...

All the Libertarians who hated cops before Obama made it official policy to hate cops.


16 posted on 08/03/2017 10:14:45 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: circlecity
I thought this was the guy the cops strangled to death for selling cigarettes.

The choke hold story is misleading and probably how he beat the charges. Garner died because he was fat and they crushed him. The same thing happened to a Down's syndrom guy in Frederick Maryland a few years ago.

17 posted on 08/03/2017 10:15:08 AM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: EinNYC

He was breaking the law, but the law he was breaking is the one prohibiting the sale of individual cigarettes, rather than a pack. Protectionism for Big Tobacco. He was meeting a need, being entrepreneurial, albeit in a way that was illegal.

He needed to be arrested; he did not need to be killed. Unlike Michael Brown and most of the others, he was a nonviolent offender who was not engaging in violence either before or during his arrest.

He was apparently choked to death in the process of being arrested, probably accidentally. Still, it shouldn’t have happened.


18 posted on 08/03/2017 10:16:02 AM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Timpanagos1

It’s pretty simple. Resisting arrest and running from the police is against the law.

Why are you apparently confused about this?

It’s cut and dried.


19 posted on 08/03/2017 10:19:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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"The choke hold story is misleading and probably how he beat the charges."

I imagine he beat the charges by dying within an hour after he was choked out by the police.

20 posted on 08/03/2017 10:21:52 AM PDT by circlecity
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