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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/n...ed-by-new-york-city-for-5-9-million.html?_r=0
New York City reached a settlement with the family of Eric Garner on Monday, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve a wrongful-death claim over his killing by the police on Staten Island last July, the city comptroller and a lawyer for the family said.
The agreement, reached a few days before the anniversary of Mr. Garner’s death, headed off one legal battle even as a federal inquiry into the killing and several others at the state and local level remain open and could provide a further accounting of how he died.
Still, the settlement was a pivotal moment in a case that has engulfed the city since the afternoon of July 17, 2014, when two officers approached Mr. Garner as he stood unarmed on a sidewalk, and accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes. One of the officers used a chokehold — prohibited by the Police Department — to subdue him, and that was cited by the medical examiner as a cause of Mr. Garner’s death.
Hey I have an idea. Just like, stop killing people and trying to be super cop for small stuff then New Yorkers wont see their tax money being used to give to the families of people the cops murder.
They should send an invoice to every family in NY showing their portion or the money that has to be paid. That'll stop it cold, suddenly people will say "Hey, I'm tired of paying settlements, how about you just fucking cool it RoboCop"
New York City reached a settlement with the family of Eric Garner on Monday, agreeing to pay $5.9 million to resolve a wrongful-death claim over his killing by the police on Staten Island last July, the city comptroller and a lawyer for the family said.
The agreement, reached a few days before the anniversary of Mr. Garner’s death, headed off one legal battle even as a federal inquiry into the killing and several others at the state and local level remain open and could provide a further accounting of how he died.
Still, the settlement was a pivotal moment in a case that has engulfed the city since the afternoon of July 17, 2014, when two officers approached Mr. Garner as he stood unarmed on a sidewalk, and accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes. One of the officers used a chokehold — prohibited by the Police Department — to subdue him, and that was cited by the medical examiner as a cause of Mr. Garner’s death.
Hey I have an idea. Just like, stop killing people and trying to be super cop for small stuff then New Yorkers wont see their tax money being used to give to the families of people the cops murder.
They should send an invoice to every family in NY showing their portion or the money that has to be paid. That'll stop it cold, suddenly people will say "Hey, I'm tired of paying settlements, how about you just fucking cool it RoboCop"
