George Floyd family $27 Million.

[kestral]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/...

George Floyd was worth $27 million dollars.

[A Winner Is You]

Hope they'll be donating some of that money to the victims of his crimes.

[carinaman]

First paragraph states they paid the money to avoid a civil wrongful death trial.

I guess the city could have decided not to pay and take it to trial. You'd think they had Lawyers advising them to make the payout.

[Countdown]

A Winner Is You said:

Hope they'll be donating some of that money to the victims of his crimes.

$500k going to be donated towards Community improvement.

It seems quite high to me but hopefully it will make Police Departments across the US out in place processes to avoid this happening again.

[Biggy Stardust]

Countdown said:

It seems quite high to me but hopefully it will make Police Departments across the US out in place processes to avoid this happening again.

A standard response to speeding fines is that the person paying volunteered by breaking the law. Sauce for the goose, etc.

[kestral]

Biggy Stardust said:

A standard response to speeding fines is that the person paying volunteered by breaking the law. Sauce for the goose, etc.

$27 million! how fast were they going.
And of course the police had no mitigating circumstances for their actions.,

[BurtonLazars]

kestral said:

George Floyd was worth $27 million dollars.

What exactly did you mean to convey when you chose this sentence as a summary of that article?

[anonymous-user]

BurtonLazars said:

What exactly did you mean to convey when you chose this sentence as a summary of that article?

yes odd. The settlement will have taxes and legal fees. I don't think any amount of money can replace a loss, and even though he wasn't the most honest person, he no way deserved to die, and the comments on here are very odd, as usual.

[kestral]

BurtonLazars said:

What exactly did you mean to convey when you chose this sentence as a summary of that article?

Excatly what it says.

[BurtonLazars]

kestral said:

Excatly what it says.

Oooh how mysterious and provocative!

[Murph7355]

There was an interesting article on Minneapolis on Newsnight the other day.

Support withdrawn for the police, 25% of police officers have either left the force or are off sick.

Killings have gone up (community on community) and crime is all over the place. "Local neighbourhood" policing is being done apparently...and there are places that actual law enforcement don't go.

FUBARd.

[TVR1]

carinaman said:

First paragraph states they paid the money to avoid a civil wrongful death trial.

I guess the city could have decided not to pay and take it to trial. You'd think they had Lawyers advising them to make the payout.

Yup.

Some posters really need to look up how Civil trials work in USA.

There’s no real direct comparison in UK but so you understand, you’ve the same jury as a criminal trial, deciding not beyond reasonable doubt but on the balance of probabilities.

I’d probably be getting very nervous if I was the Attorney General.

Claim probably started at couple hundred million and reduced to $27 after a bit of negotiating.


The film Erin Brockovich gives a pretty good idea why they want to settle out of Court.

Unlike the film, I’d guess that irrespective of previous history, the footage of being choked and killed rather sort of makes it a bit difficult to argue it wasn’t, on the balance of probabilities, an accident or justifiable.

US juries also set the financial punishment. Not the Judge.They go a bit crazy sometimes.

[Smiler.]

Murph7355 said:

There was an interesting article on Minneapolis on Newsnight the other day.

Support withdrawn for the police, 25% of police officers have either left the force or are off sick.

Killings have gone up (community on community) and crime is all over the place. "Local neighbourhood" policing is being done apparently...and there are places that actual law enforcement don't go.

FUBARd.

I'm sure this is just another qanon, trump-lovvin' antagonist, so can be ignored:

poster said:

The George Floyd memorial is an "autonomous zone" with several blocks controlled by activists. Police don't even go in. We tried to respectfully get video-but left after two people confronted us near the barricades.
Later learned many protestors don't even feel comfortable there.

https://twitter.com/BrianEntin/status/136945631007...

[TVR1]

Murph7355 said:

There was an interesting article on Minneapolis on Newsnight the other day.

Support withdrawn for the police, 25% of police officers have either left the force or are off sick.

Killings have gone up (community on community) and crime is all over the place. "Local neighbourhood" policing is being done apparently...and there are places that actual law enforcement don't go.

FUBARd.

That’s what happens when ‘Policing by Consent’ takes a back step to ‘Policing by Force’

[Lagom]

The $27million compo is on top on of the $20+ million raised on charity begging site GoFundMe.

[Murph7355]

TVR1 said:

Murph7355 said:

There was an interesting article on Minneapolis on Newsnight the other day.

Support withdrawn for the police, 25% of police officers have either left the force or are off sick.

Killings have gone up (community on community) and crime is all over the place. "Local neighbourhood" policing is being done apparently...and there are places that actual law enforcement don't go.

FUBARd.

That’s what happens when ‘Policing by Consent’ takes a back step to ‘Policing by Force’

The question in my head whilst watching the article was, however, what was the chicken and what was the egg?

If the communities are killing each other on an increasing basis now police presence has been radically reduced, doesn't it raise the question on how on earth do you police by consent in such a toxic atmosphere? There is no way on earth I would want to be a police officer there.

And how are the US at large going to deal with it? With such losses in officers, how long will it be before there are none there and that the "autonomous zones" expand to consume the whole city? What then? Just let the killing and crime continue to get out of control.

It's a mess. But what was the chicken, and what the egg?

[Douglas Quaid]

BurtonLazars said:

kestral said:

George Floyd was worth $27 million dollars.

What exactly did you mean to convey when you chose this sentence as a summary of that article?

Well he was a scumbag. Long list of violent crimes against women. He had held up a pregnant woman at gunpoint before. A real piece of work. The world is a better place without him in it.

Not saying that the policeman should’ve done what he did but it’s no great loss to the world and the funeral service with a picture of him with a halo as if he was a good guy was sickening.

[TVR1]

Murph7355 said:

TVR1 said:

Murph7355 said:

There was an interesting article on Minneapolis on Newsnight the other day.

Support withdrawn for the police, 25% of police officers have either left the force or are off sick.

Killings have gone up (community on community) and crime is all over the place. "Local neighbourhood" policing is being done apparently...and there are places that actual law enforcement don't go.

FUBARd.

That’s what happens when ‘Policing by Consent’ takes a back step to ‘Policing by Force’

The question in my head whilst watching the article was, however, what was the chicken and what was the egg?

If the communities are killing each other on an increasing basis now police presence has been radically reduced, doesn't it raise the question on how on earth do you police by consent in such a toxic atmosphere? There is no way on earth I would want to be a police officer there.

And how are the US at large going to deal with it? With such losses in officers, how long will it be before there are none there and that the "autonomous zones" expand to consume the whole city? What then? Just let the killing and crime continue to get out of control.

It's a mess. But what was the chicken, and what the egg?

Chicken in recent history was prohibition and earlier, whilst becoming the most powerful nation on earth, the egg was still having slavery way beyond other Countries.

Look up William Wilberforce.

I’ve had a classic education.

[Murph7355]

TVR1 said:

Chicken in recent history was prohibition and earlier, whilst becoming the most powerful nation on earth, the egg was still having slavery way beyond other Countries.

Look up William Wilberforce.

I’ve had a classic education.

Am familiar with WW (classic education also ).

The current situation in Minneapolis does not seem like any sort of improvement to my eyes.

[anonymous-user]

Whilst Tony Timpa's family still waits..

https://www.cato.org/blog/cops-who-killed-tony-tim...