One jury got it right...need more of these!

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VenomJockey

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Trying to get rich quick when your Black relative gets shot by White cops doesn't always work out!

https://downtrend.com/71superb/jury-awards-4-to-family-of-black-man-killed-by-white-cops/

Excerpt: "Hill’s family filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit that asked jurors to decide if his Constitutional rights had been violated and to award appropriate damages. Here’s what the jury came up with:

Last week, the jurors delivered their verdict. Deputy Newman had not used excessive force, they concluded, but the St. Lucie County sheriff, Ken Mascara, had been ever so slightly negligent given Deputy Newman’s actions. The jury awarded $4 in damages: $1 for funeral expenses and $1 for each child’s loss.

But wait, it gets funnier:

Because jurors also found that the sheriff’s office was only 1 percent at fault in the death, that award was reduced to four cents. And furthermore, because jurors found that Mr. Hill was intoxicated and mostly to blame for the shooting, a lawyer for his family said Tuesday that a judge would reduce the four-cent award to nothing.

There are many ways a jury can tell plaintiffs that their frivolous lawsuits are garbage and this is one of them. What this judgement says is that threatening law enforcement officers is not a “get rich quick” scheme. There is no reward for pointing a gun at cops."
 
SIASD, file a stupid lawsuit and get a stupid judgment. The verdict works for me. It will be fun to see what happen now.

Maybe, MAYBE, this will send a message that when your gangbanger, drug dealing, violent offspring get creamed by the cops, it's not an automatic win in a civil suit. Maybe.....
 
Maybe, MAYBE, this will send a message that when your gangbanger, drug dealing, violent offspring get creamed by the cops, it's not an automatic win in a civil suit. Maybe.....
But, but, he was a victim, the result of a bad white cop! He was a wonderful man! NOT!

I am sick of people who want to do whatever they want and then act like they are the victims.
 
But, but, he was a victim, the result of a bad white cop! He was a wonderful man! NOT!

I am sick of people who want to do whatever they want and then act like they are the victims.

Oh, but if you're a victim, think of the sympathy, the glory, the lawsuits!! :barf:
 
Jeez, even Fox is on the sympathy kick.... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/0...state-black-man-killed-by-florida-deputy.html

Excerpt: "The family of a black man who was killed by a Florida deputy is baffled after a jury award them four cents as compensation for his death.
Jurors in Fort Pierce determined last week that St. Lucie County Sheriff’s deputy Christopher Newman had not used excessive force when he shot Gregory Hill three times during a confrontation in 2014, and that Sheriff Ken Mascara had been a bit negligent, according to The New York Times.
The jurors determined that Hill was 99 percent responsible for his death because he was drunk when he was shot by Newman who was responding to a noise complaint.
The estate was awarded $4, but the family would only get one percent of that. John Phillips, the family’s lawyer, told The New York Times that a judge would reduce the award to nothing because of the jury’s ruling.
“It’s heartbreaking,” Hill’s fiancée, Monique Davis, told the newspaper. “There are a lot of questions I want to ask.”
 
It seems like since so many blacks and gang bangers have declared war on LEO that they would not be so stupid even drunk to pull out a gun.
Or resist arrest ,just use common sense and don't fight till court time. There are times where lethal force has been abused but most of the time it is not.
Like Sentry has said time is coming when most cops will be the bottom of the barrel since society is so wild now. Cops are retiring early or just quitting and not many new hires are replacing them.
 
It seems like since so many blacks and gang bangers have declared war on LEO that they would not be so stupid even drunk to pull out a gun.
Or resist arrest ,just use common sense and don't fight till court time. There are times where lethal force has been abused but most of the time it is not.
Like Sentry has said time is coming when most cops will be the bottom of the barrel since society is so wild now. Cops are retiring early or just quitting and not many new hires are replacing them.

This is what happens when "policing" becomes political, rather than an issue of law & order.
 
Just a topic side note, all the major news groups have posted about the award. you can guess the verbiage. Those poor people and the heartless jury, yeah, right. Good verdict and good outcome.
 
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