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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: financialsuicide; insanity; stupid
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To: Vaquero
"So its the cops fault and the city has to pay $6 Large to the family. "
Wonder how long it will take them to go through that. They'll probably be back on welfare by the end of the year.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:14:15 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: GIdget2004
They are going to have to get all the police out there on overtime shaking down potential tax felons selling “selling single untaxed cigarettes” to make up the $5 million plus the city just got shook down for.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:30:00 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(No matter the laws that get passed or the edicts given they are just queers, freaks and perverts.)
To: GIdget2004
Providing Obama with a big racial issue is lucrative, no matter if you’re an at fault criminal.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:31:32 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Chode
cause the city wanted it’s 25cents in taxes...
...
Legitimate businesses were complaining about him, apparently.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:32:54 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: GIdget2004
Paying people to resist arrest.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:40:45 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
To: Moonman62
![](http://www.collectoons.com/imgtoon/701/702/20100101_121507chode.gif)
prolly were... not defending the mutt nor losing sleep over what happened to hum, but selling loose smokes is only illegal cause of taxes, taxes that cost more than the product itself
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:41:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
There was a funeral parlour on the corner of the street I lived on. We knew everybody on the street, so whenever anyone died, my mother paid her respects at the funeral home. Because I was the youngest in the family, she’d always drag me along. I saw a lot of dead people when I was a kid. It didn’t bother me much then, but as I got older, I started feeling like you. When a long-time friend and co-worker passed in a parachute jump, I couldn’t bring myself to attend his funeral. I wanted to remember him as he was the last time I’d seen him. My parents and all my siblings are gone. It’s just me and my two sons left. I believe I’ve seen enough dead people to last the rest of my lifetime.
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posted on
07/13/2015 5:52:54 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: The KG9 Kid
You summed it up nicely.
I for one am deliriously happy that NYC has to ‘cough” out $6 million as a result of its idiotic taxing of single cigs.
I’d like to know how much in taxes has gone in the NYC ‘coffers’ as a result of its high cigarette taxes which just created the black market that killed Garner.
To: GIdget2004
Another industry is born. The martyr industry american style.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:29:10 PM PDT
by
Fhios
(White Privilege: Vae victus victori spolia -- Woe to the vanquished, to the victor the spoils.)
To: GIdget2004
If that guy lived for 500 years he wouldnt have earned $6 mil.
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:34:29 PM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Things are only going to get worse.)
To: God luvs America
They turned down the deal this morning saying they wanted $75 million. A few hours later ...
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:49:48 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I Love Bull Markets!!!)
To: mass55th
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:54:25 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!)
To: GIdget2004
you can get rid of bad publicity and worthless thugs if you just spend enough of someone else’s money
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posted on
07/13/2015 6:56:41 PM PDT
by
terycarl
(, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
To: GIdget2004
that’s O.K., with the tax rate in N.Y., the family will get about $6.95.
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posted on
07/13/2015 7:04:16 PM PDT
by
terycarl
(, COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVERALL)
To: NoKoolAidforMe
This is a white guilt, liberal surrender settlement.
It's a close cousin to all the "consent decrees" that various levels of government enter into not really to avoid costly suits but rather to achieve results while circumventing legislative and other inconvenient governing processes.
I'd be more than happy to see NYC and other Progressive bastions go this route, except for the fact that they'll be used as precedents for suits/settlements in not-so-Progressive bastions.
To: GIdget2004
well, the attorney's will get their cut, and ....
The relatives of Mr. Garner, along with Mr. Moore, are expected to discuss the settlement at a news conference scheduled for Tuesday morning at the Harlem offices of the National Action Network, led by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The Rev. Al wil get his cut and....
the Garner family will go to DisneyLand.
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posted on
07/13/2015 8:44:15 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(obama = Fredo Smart)
To: GIdget2004
So, that lifelong criminal Eric Garner was worth far more DEAD than alive. He never held a regular job, was a career petty criminal, and now the taxpayers have to pony up $5.9 mil for these ghetto animals. I read that dear “Esaw” is only a common law wife at that, and that Garner had a much younger piece on the side who has a child by him.
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posted on
07/13/2015 10:24:49 PM PDT
by
EinNYC
To: GIdget2004
The family won the lottery!
Can white people do this too?
To: FreeAtlanta
It should have been paid out of the police pension fund.
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posted on
07/14/2015 3:08:45 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
To: NoKoolAidforMe
I do not believe nor support the idea that police are ordered or encouraged to arrest people for selling untaxed cigarettes. I would say that you are naive. The government was losing revenue and governments don't like to lose revenue so the police were ordered to put a stop to it.
This is also why I say that Bratton is actually worse than DeBlasio.
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posted on
07/14/2015 3:11:41 AM PDT
by
nonliberal
(Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico.)
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