Posted on 03/28/2022 6:57:32 AM PDT by Renkluaf
On Friday, a jury in Denver, Colorado gave their verdict awarding $14 million in damages to 12 plaintiffs who were injured by police after participating in violent race riots in the summer of 2020.
As reported by the New York Post, the jury claimed that police in Denver used excessive force when they attempted to shut down the violence, and in doing so allegedly violated the rioters’ constitutional rights.
The decision was celebrated by the far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which declared through a spokesman that “the verdict is a message to the police department, to the highest echelons of the police department, but also a message to police departments all over the country.”
The jury, consisting of two men and six women, came to their decision after four hours of deliberation, following a three-week trial. The protesters who sued the police suffered various non-fatal injuries from such non-lethal weapons as pepper spray and lead fired from a shotgun. The largest reward went to Zach Packard, who was given $3 million after the aforementioned lead shot hit him in the head and put him in the hospital.
Another protester, Stanford Smith, was hit by pepper spray and falsely claimed that his life was in danger from the non-lethal weapon.
“I feared for my life, because I couldn’t see, I couldn’t breathe,” he said in an interview. “What the police did was wrong, and we wanted the facts to come out in court.”
In the closing arguments of the case, one of the lawyers for the rioters, Timothy Macdonald, explicitly said that he wanted the jury to give a verdict that would be interpreted as a message for police departments all across the country.
“Hopefully, what police departments will take from this,” he said, “is a jury of regular citizens takes these rights very seriously.”
Race riots had broken out across the nation following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died of a fentanyl overdose while in police custody in Minneapolis, in May of 2020. The arresting officers were falsely accused of police brutality and “racism,” and the subsequent riots saw dozens of cities burned, hundreds of businesses destroyed, over $2 billion accumulated in damages, and over two dozen civilians murdered by rioters over the course of the summer.
If you want more of something, reward it.
Victims of the rioters should sue to claw back that unearned money for compensation and restitution.
When your child disobeys and does violent things, you must punish them to get their attention. Violent rioters are not engaging in civil discourse. This is 1970. when all we did at protests was sit down and sing the police attacked us. These people are burning cars, breaking windows looting stores and then setting them on fire. Sorry that they were hurt. Should have thought twice before they acted violently. Now taxpayers will pay the bill for the violent rioters who sued and won. The world have gone upside down.
Note to self: breath deep, breathe deep, don’t go postal, remain calm ....
GRRR!!! @:#-”@’@#$##$#!!!
Them there George Floyd rioters that got money going to pay back the small business they looted, wrecked, damaged, and/or burnt?
Case in point:
‘Denver’s George Floyd protests cost at least $5.5 million in damage, overtime.......’
Half a** backwards.
What were the dates of the riot? I am so sure I was there. Give me some money.
You can’t throw T bone steaks at a 700 lb. Bengal tiger who is chasing you ... and expect him to back off!!
“Jury of their peers”
And the "Jury" should be made to pay the award out of their own pockets.
Sweetheart lawsuit.
They’re setting a precedent for January 6th protestor lawsuits against the Capitol police.
“Jurors” never were very bright. They fined themselves. The police department money is THEIR tax dollars. How are protestors going to be able to prove they were there. Now we need some “jurors” to fine the FBI over their treatment of DC protestors on January 6th. They are the ones who need to receive reparations. Their rights to protest were violated. DOUBLE FRIGGIN’ STANDARDS!
Not sure what lead from a shot gun is.
Dox the jurors?
The Constitution demands an Unbiased Jury, not a jury of one’s peers.
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