Charlotte to pay $2.25m to family of black man shot dead by white officer

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  1. JoshPosh

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    I think that if the shooting wasn't justified then the $2.25 M is a good enough settlement for the man's family. But the ruling also sets a negative precedent. There'll be more and more similar lawsuits filed by "victims" families hoping they'll get some cash. As more filth gets raked up by the media in the process, we should brace ourselves for more riots.
     
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    This - this!
     
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    I'm less concerned by the families demanding compensation - lawsuits happen all the time, and it doesn't mean they'll win. I would expect most of those cases to fail if the shooting was justified.

    What I am concerned about is the precedent we're setting by not forcing some kind of change to police departments. These unwarranted shootings are growing more frequent all the while the crime rate drops, that that's more alarming than the lawsuits. I believe almost all police officers are honest, fair people. Some are on a power trip, but they don't set out to kill people. The bad apples that keep spoiling the bunch are what we need to target, but without some kind of reform that holds the officers personally accountable it's just going to keep happening, all because one of the bad apples rolled out of the wrong side of the bed that morning and feels that someone needs to die.
     
  5. JR Ewing

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    These things usually get settled out of court if the police are at fault.

    The thing about all of these police officers shooting / killing "unarmed black men" that the media and the race baiters keep exploiting is that the shootings have almost all been found to be justified. The whole "hands up, don't shoot" in Ferguson was found to be a total lie - Mike Brown's buddy who was with him when he robbed the store, intimidated the clerk, and then picked a fight he could not win - had previously been in trouble with the law for lying to the police, among many other legal problems he's had previously and even since then. :rolleyes:

    [video=youtube;qQeni0qt8Vo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQeni0qt8Vo[/video]



    Millions and millions of dollars worth of property damage, people injured, I think even a few killed for nothing. It was all a big lie. And I've heard some in the media who have covered multiple riots say that they see some of the same people rioting - that many of them are basically professional rioters bused in by "community organizers". And some say that people like Soros are often funding many of these things.

    Then of course the "change" is needed. Billions more in tax dollars that are supposed to go directly into these areas largely goes into the hands of politicians. Laws are changed in a supposed effort to help the "disenfranchised", etc, etc. :rolleyes:



    It's rarely, if ever about some rogue racist cop getting up some morning and deciding he's going to kill an innocent, unarmed black man. As long as people like Sharpton and the NBPP and the nation of islam are allowed to do what they do with no consequences (other than making themselves look like jackasses over and over), these riots will continue to get more and more out of hand. And the only reason they do it is because they are able to profit from it - they don't really care about anyone else.

    And as long as we have a president and an AG who are sympathetic to thugs and race baiters, it will only get worse and worse.
     
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    [video=youtube;L3uNw4sNm9c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3uNw4sNm9c[/video]

    No great loss to the world.
     
  7. JoshPosh

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    I hear arguments about these riots and looters and it is sad that thugs and opportunist take advantage of incident like these where emotions run high and they see a need to trash and steal. Majority was not because of racial inequality. It was about getting sh*t for free.
     
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    Even if these people are doing something illegal, it still doesn't mean they have to die. Police are meant to protect people, and killing someone should be a last resort, even if they are resisting, and even if they are punching on a cop. And there are many cases coming to light now where police are on video clearly in the wrong. It's not an A/B argument, about who's right and who's wrong, it's about not killing people.

    There is abuse of power going on, just as there are people out there taking advantage of riots or assaulting cops.
     
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    We cannot put a price on a person's life and reaching such a settlement is definitely an assumption of guilt. I just hope that more situations like this do not happen in the future.
     
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    I'm all for families of victims who have died wrongly due to police brutality or misconduct. However, as others have stated, I think there's definitely going to be an overreach. We live in a sue happy society as it is. With the media focus on conflicts between police and citizens, I only see these law suits continuing to rise.
     

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