cause the city wanted it's 25cents in taxes...
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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That’s a very expensive loosey...
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.
sorry, just realized how jumbled up my post was. I am a little angry at this.
It’s fair. Death by the taxman is disturbing.
I agree. Nanny state BS laws caused the initial problem.
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!
NYC taxpayers: "That warm stream you feel down your back? It's raining..."
#blacklivesarevaluable
Ghetto Lottery, For the Win!!
I don’t believe in the concept of “closure.”
i give the family credit...if anti-semite al sharpton was involved they would’ve sued for ten times that amount...
Finally, someone else who agrees with me on this.
It will take Hizzonner the Mayor a long time to recoup the losses from THAT fiasco.
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..
cause the city wanted it's 25cents in taxes...
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.
Depends. I last saw my best friend unembalmed, not made up and with lividity clearly showing.
Still, I’m glad I did.
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.
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