cause the city wanted it's 25cents in taxes...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.
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...
It will take Hizzonner the Mayor a long time to recoup the losses from THAT fiasco.
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.
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.
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.
Providing Obama with a big racial issue is lucrative, no matter if you’re an at fault criminal.
Paying people to resist arrest.
Another industry is born. The martyr industry american style.
If that guy lived for 500 years he wouldnt have earned $6 mil.
you can get rid of bad publicity and worthless thugs if you just spend enough of someone else’s money
that’s O.K., with the tax rate in N.Y., the family will get about $6.95.