Posted on 07/31/2014 4:24:40 AM PDT by markomalley
Agreed! Let's hope they appeal and get a change of venue to someplace with country clubs and a golf course. (Those are "dog whistle" words...)
Damn, no more DOLLAR menu.
No, you f'in' morons, the thing that sets all of this in motion is feral youth.
I encourage McDonalds and all other restaurants in feral-youth infested areas to pull out. Screw 'em.
No.
Mickey D’s DID have something to do with this. Where was their security? Cops had been called to that location 20 previous times for instances like this.
Like what? If you live in a bad neighborhood is it your fault that thugs rob and murder people in your neighborhood? By your "logic" it is.
I thought Bryan / College Station was a lot smarter than that. WOW.
It will be overturned on appeal.
If I’m on your property (invited) and your dog attacks me - you are liable. If I’m at a business and they know that wall is dangerous and could fall and hurt someone - and it does - they are liable.
Granted McDonalds liabilty is nowhere near 27 million, but they did have a duty to provide for a safe and secure restaraunt.
Even to drunks, thugs and idiots.
(deliberately) False analogy. The thugs didn't belong to McD's. They weren't under the control of McD's AND McD's doesn't have the police power to arrst them and if McD's denies them service then they sue for discrimination. Sorry good buddy your theory dosn't hold up.
Agreed.
aka - Go for the deepest pockets possible and hit the mega-lottery.
***Yep, Jury saw free money***
This reminds me of something I read about ancient Greece.
A rich man could be arrested and tried by a jury of 1000 people. He was always found guilty as the Jury then got to divvy up the man’s riches between themselves.
Wonder if these jurors will get a piece of that McDonald’s award?
Pretty sad when Private Business’s have a “Legal Duty” to “Protect” it’s Customers but the POLICE DON’T??
Maybe we need a Constitutional Amendment guaranteeing “Equal Protection Under the LAW”.
This is a stupid award. The only thing good that could come out of this would be that all the stupid, feel good businesses can see the fallacy of having no weapons on property policies and put up signs saying you and your legal weapon are welcome. One CHL carrier could have stopped this assault.
Texas lawyers drove all the doctors away from Texas, after Texas tax payers paid to educate those doctors…until Rick Perry won the state house. I dread what happens when Greg Abbott becomes governor…one of the great things about Perry i that he’s not a &^%$ lawyer.
Well, Counselor Dingbat, the owners of the McD don’t “own” the criminals or have any control over them the way a dog owner owns a dog.
Texas has a law school on every city block!
Or a member of the jury pool
I say sue the corporations that banned guns on their property. To me, this creates an absolute liability on their part to protect everyone at the site, as they do not allow people to effectively protect themselves.
Beaten to Death at McDonald’s: A racial attack the media chose to ignore.
FrontPage Mag ^ | 08/20/2014 | David Paulin
Police were constantly responding to late-night fights, assaults, and disturbances among huge crowds that were mostly black – a problem one top police official called a “drain on resource.” Most of the reported incidents – some 200 in the three years preceding Ward and Crisp’s deaths – involved black-on-black violence by gang bangers and, according to one police officer, members of black college fraternities. One police report described an unidentified man’s head getting bashed against a curb. White patrons appeared to be especially susceptible and at risk – and when they were attacked, the blows were particularly vicious. The hours of 2-to-3 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays were especially volatile, with at least a dozen fights and assaults reported during those hours in the year preceding Ward and Crisp’s deaths.
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For Ward and Giesen, the trouble started seconds after exiting McDonald’s front door. “You’re in the wrong neck of the woods, cowboys,” Giesen recalled a young black male saying.
Unwittingly, they’d blundered into a highly-charged situation. Shortly before they’d arrived, two black males had gotten into a loud argument inside the restaurant. A gun was brandished. But manager Lindsey Ives, a black woman, didn’t call the police. She told the men to take their dispute outside.
In an instant, a bloodthirsty mob was upon the college students.
~snip~
Why was University McDonald’s so popular among black gang bangers and black fraternity members? Carlos Butler, the outlet’s black general manager, could take credit for that. An aspiring hip-hop artist, he hosted large hip-hop concerts attracting some 1,500 people — and after those events many of the black hip-hoppers headed to University McDonald’s.
Interestingly, Butler told a police detective he always had “a lot of security” at his hip-hop events.
Yet at University McDonald’s, Butler had no off-duty police officer providing security — even on nights that the hip-hop and gangsta crowd showed up in large numbers.
Cost for an off-duty cop – a mere $100. Police had told Butler such a late-night security measure, in use at other nearby 24-hour outlets, could stop trouble before it started.
What does a settlement do?
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