While prosecutors and grand juries refuse to charger police with murder, suits like this might pave the way for more humane treatment of the folks they are supposed to protect. City budgets are in trouble. Hopefully, city officials will put pressure on police to spend a few $$$ on better training a start weeding out their over aggressive racist police.
Don’t count on it.
Waiting for you-know-who to show up and state that this this award is a miscarriage of justice because a grand jury declined to bring charges against the officers.
Where does this money come from? Does the city have insurance that covers it? Will they just close a bunch of recreation centers?
Most cities have special funds set aside for these things . At least the family got some compensation for their loss.
I am guessing, Mr. Comments? Nick Danger? Right? Wrong?
The money won’t bring the kid back. Every time I see that video I think of all the kids who I have known who played with bb guns but weren’t shot out of hand. The racism and shoot first, ask questions attitude displayed by the Cleveland police department makes me sick.
unfortunately I doubt it. The Police budget won’t change as a result of this, no officers were charged, just another dead kid and the tax payers get the bill.
That would be consistent with GOP “logic.” The article says he played at the recreation center nearly every day. If the city had closed the recreation center then Tamir would not have been there and the police would not have had to shoot him.
The shooting
raised questions aboutbriefly exposed to the nation how police have alwaystreattreated blacks
Fixed that for you, AP.