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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I really don’t want to hear about Oakland having not enough money for cops or schools ever again.
The ghetto lottery wins again!!
“Whatever the reasons, the fact remains that to this day not a single organization of the mainstream press has ever investigated the Panther murders, even though the story is one that touches the lives and political careers of the entire liberal establishment, including the first lady and the deputy attorney general in charge of civil rights for the Clinton administration. Both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Lann Lee began their political careers as law students at Yale by organizing demonstrations in 1970 to shut down the university and stop the trial of Panther leaders who had tortured and then executed a black youth named Alex Rackley.”
From this interesting article:
“Who Killed Betty Van Patter?”
https://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/
Thanks for posting.
That was an interesting read.
I knew Jerry Brown was vile but had no idea just how.
Actually, elected officials are not public employees. the fact that they receive compensation for their position does not make them employees in the traditional sense.
That being the case, the city should not be liable for her actions.
In Oakland, unlike most cities, money grows on trees, not! $4 million to a worthless old commie Black woman, is money that could have gone to helping a lot of East Oakland Blacks who really do need help.Go figure! Just hope the city goes into court and contests the judgement.
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Actually SF has some semblance of order.
Oakland is bedlam decomposed.
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San Francisco is the toilet. Oakland is the septic tank.
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Don’t leave out San Jose; it has both of them beat.
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