Posted on 02/06/2024 7:44:35 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
What damage? What possible damage could have occurred to equate to 5 million dollars?
Most people don't make that much in their entire lives.
More money than most men can make in their entire lives for being misconstrued as a racist?
Someone do it to me!
Too bad the award wasn’t $250 million... or $2.5 billion.
Did you read the article?
"Still, Sapulpa’s attorneys claimed that as a result of the wrongful identification, he was placed on administrative leave, his teaching contract was not renewed, his private business lost nearly all of its clients, he received death threats and lost personal and professional relationships."
The article was first published at 11 AM the morning after the incident. Assuming the game was in the evening, they had about 12 hours to research the facts of the event.
The report was amended to include the victim's name at 12:30 PM.
When you have a woke agenda, accuracy isn't important.
You forget, the Internet is forever.
The newspaper should be more careful when attacking private citizens. I imagine they will going forward.
Yep.
No. The essential points are contained in the headline.
"Still, Sapulpa’s attorneys claimed that as a result of the wrongful identification, he was placed on administrative leave, his teaching contract was not renewed, his private business lost nearly all of its clients, he received death threats and lost personal and professional relationships."
Doesn't equate to 5 million, let alone 20.
When you have a woke agenda, accuracy isn't important.
That may be so, but the actual damages do not get near what he has been given. This is not justice, this is just a different form of injustice.
Not really. I can't tell you how many articles I have linked that are gone, no longer available, and I can't find any trace of them.
The newspaper should be more careful when attacking private citizens. I imagine they will going forward.
Well yes they should, but the punishment should fit the crime. If someone slaps you, they deserve a slap back, not the loss of their arm.
This guy was not "damaged" to the tune of 5 million. That's just @$$hole juries being frivolous with other people's money.
We should all oppose ridiculously excessive awards from courts.
L.A. Law S4. E9. "Noah's Bark". Actually the Jump The Shark episode, imo.
Others can argue it was the soon-to-follow Rosalind Shays plummeting down the elevator shaft (loflllllll), but the show never came close to "Noah's Bark" again.
If they made a mistake and corrected it by identifying correctly who had made the remarks then I don’t think he should have gotten damages."
It might be a salient point if it was a local one-shop paper in Podunk, OK; but Gannett had billboarded this on their wire, ensuring the full span of their national interwebs network. 3 hours is long enough in that scenario, because it was pushed with notifications, etc.
So the irony is that their punishment fits their crime that fits their crime.
That crime supra is Gannett has consistently encouraged -- among the first to do so in the MSM -- unconstitutional codification of bogus 'hate crime', even criminalizing the use of language, so they are paying for their own calumny! Schadenfreude!
and just how are taxpayers getting screwed over??
No.
As I suspected, but at least you are honest enough to admit it.
You still didn't address my point that the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
There was no crime, this was a civil suit.
I’m assuming neither of us were on the jury.
But I’m giving the jury the benefit of the doubt. You, sitting behind your keyboard, heard none of the testimony, but still feel qualified to pass judgement.
I have sufficient facts to pass judgement, and I am certain I have thought the matter through better than that idiot jury.
5 million is far too much for the injury caused. 20 million more is absolute proof that no actual thought went into the verdict, and they might as well say a 100 trillion dollars for all the connection to reality it has.
This nation is burdened with absolute idiot jurors along side corrupt, stupid, lying, idiot, coward, judges.
This case is just another example of a broken, dysfunctional, unjust system.
So instead of just bitching, what is your solution to the problems you cite? How would you propose to deal with what you call “@$$hole juries”?
We likely can't get there from here.
Firstly, *ONLY* taxpayers should serve on juries. While we're at it, *ONLY* taxpayers should be allowed to vote.
This cleans up a lot of elected officials and has a side effect on getting better judges.
Got to fix the school system so people can learn how to think. Got to fix the media-lie-system so the public is less misinformed.
Perhaps doing these things would have precluded the event from every happening?
This is not really a serious topic. Nothing that objectively works will be implemented, so what I think can be done about idiot juries is not going to matter.
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