Posted on 01/09/2018 6:24:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
A Northern California jury awarded more than $4 million in punitive damages to a former leader of the Black Panthers who was injured after an Oakland councilwoman punched and pushed her during an argument over housing.
The jury found Oakland councilwoman Desley Brooks should pay $550,000 to Elaine Brown, who was injured after Brooks pushed her during a 2015 confrontation at a restaurant.
The same jury last month found that Brooks was acting as a city employee and decided Oakland should pay Brown $3.8 million in damages, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday. […]
The jury said the former Black Panther leader, who was 72 years old at the time of the assault, was the victim of elder abuse and battery. …
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Wasn’t she one of the black Panthers who helped murder Betty Van Patter? David Horowitz brought her in and talked a lot about her murder..Her brutal murder started Horowitz down the road into becoming a conservative...
Black pays black in black city in California. I’m perfectly fine with it
I do not approve of what happened to this woman, but that is an absurd obscene jury award.
The perpetrator should have been jailed for a period of time, one to two years. She should have been required to pay all medical bills and a fine on top of that. The city did not participate in this.
The victim shouldn’t get more than $50-100k > IMO.
Maybe it was a setup, and puncher and puncher are secretly splitting the pot.
Yes, Elaine Brown is a vile POS who was implicated in savage violence with the Black Panthers:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1696
Punchee, I meant.
Jurors don't seem to realize the community pays these awards.
Eh we'll screw da man!
No, you'll screw your community. There goes that new community center you folks wanted in a neighborhood near you.
Well, at least you'll see Elaine Brown with her walker a few more times before she goes toes up. That's just as good, right?
But the city of San Francesspool continues its love affair with the Black Panthers.
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Oakland!
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Is there such a thing as an “ex” black panther? Example...Rep Bobby Rush (D)
Same cesspool, different turd.
Taxpayer free money.
wheeeeeeeee!
Unless she is mugged, robbed at home, or kidnapped for ransom in the meantime.
Yes, then there’s that too.
Agreed.
Gimme-dat...... #metoo
What the heck, you can always raise taxes to pay off ridiculous lawsuits. Taxpayers have a lot of money so get in line, break the law and get in on the lawsuit lottery.
All details contained within Horowitz's excellent book: Radical Son
Elaine Brown should have been put down decades ago.
Of course.
White taxpayers will get billed for this.
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