Posted on 04/01/2022 4:17:35 AM PDT by KeyLargo
DENVER – A federal jury’s $14 million award to Denver protesters hit with pepper balls and a bag filled with lead during 2020 demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis could resonate nationwide as courts weigh more than two dozen similar lawsuits.
The jury found police used excessive force against protesters, violating their constitutional rights, and ordered the city of Denver to pay 12 who sued.
Nationwide, there are at least 29 pending lawsuits challenging law enforcement use of force during the 2020 protests, according to a search of the University of Michigan’s Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse.
The verdict in Denver could give cities an incentive to settle similar cases rather than risk going to trial and losing, said Michael J. Steinberg, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and director of the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative. It could also prompt more protesters to sue over their treatment at the hands of police.
“There’s no doubt that the large jury verdict in Denver will influence the outcome of pending police misconduct cases brought by Black Lives Matter protesters across the country,” said Steinberg, whose law students have been working on a similar lawsuit brought by protesters in Detroit.
Lawyers for the claimants argued that police used indiscriminate force against the nonviolent protesters, including some who were filming the demonstrations, because officers did not like their message critical of law enforcement.
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Rioting and burning down cities will be a Get Rich Quick scheme in the future.
Insane running the asylum, when does this all end? Cant be good
Ashli Babbitt’s family might be able to claim excessive force.
Yet some think this country still has a calm future.
Public Sector Agencies will learn to defer to private persons acting on their own behalf and see nothing.
Was the jury related to the claimants?
Was the jury or their families threatened by the rioters?
So the 1/6 prisoners are in for a windfall?
“Public Sector Agencies will learn to defer to private persons acting on their own behalf and see nothing.”
There are a lot of people who would be good with this. Of course, that leads to anarchy, in the old definition of the word.
“Public Sector Agencies will learn to defer to private persons acting on their own behalf and see nothing.”
EXACTLY
The Death of Proactive Policing Will Lead Americans to More Grave sites
Posted by: Jim McNeff|April 6, 2018 |Categories Editorial, Featured
The Death of Proactive Policing Will Lead Americans to More Grave sites
There are two major reasons why the death of proactive policing (cops doing more to control crime) will erode public safety, thus leading Americans to more gravesites.
First, whatever force controls the streets reduces all others as subordinate—even the police.
Second, when police officers become reactive versus proactive, their skills erode and fewer career criminals are caught preying on others.
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/death-proactive-policing-lead-americans-gravesites/
Unless you’re a Jan6 protestor. They are not in the “protected class”
It is now a business and will be taught at colleges and universities across the nation.
I'm not sure that there is any way to save us, short of RevII.
If you participate in a protest or riot, is there an expectation that no harm will result from this personal choice of behavior?
Phooooey!
This is Denver deep state funneling money to terrorist groups via “lawsuits”.
A normal person suing of their own accord would get zero lawyers taking his case, saying you cannot sue the immune city etc.
Finally, someone who understands!
Too bad that more people don’t.... they continue to believe in a Red state - Blue state or urban - rural metric.
Well, except here the private agents of Denver are the RIOTERS themselves. They are paying them off, is all.
Next time there is burning in Denver like this, I join in and get my money too.
I think not. Remember, the guy who shot her, Michael Byrd, is a racist bigot and part of the global cabal that are resetting our world so that the power elites will have total control over the masses.
I agree they should not have used bean bag guns and tear gas. They should have used m60s and flame throwers.
Then-16-year-old Brad Ayala was watching the protest, when an officer shot him in the head with a beanbag round. The settlement brings the total amount Austin officials have approved for people injured in the May 2020 protests to over $13 million.
https://archive.ph/3OQND#selection-1101.0-1105.246
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