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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Police and Government Lawsuits and Settlements

Police and Government Lawsuits and Settlements ---

  • $33M Jan 15, 2013 - Chicago to pay $33 million to settle 2 cases of police misconduct
  • $15M wanted for Clock boy threat
  • Leonard Thomas Jury awards nearly $15M to family of unarmed drunk mentally ill black man killed by SWAT sniper in Fife  July 14, 2017
  • $8M Pablo Gomez in San Diego Largest Police Misconduct Verdict 
  • $6.5M  Oct 8, 2015 - North Charleston reaches $6.5 million settlement with Walter Scott
  • 6.4M Freddy Gray alleged by cops he may have hurt himself in van
  • $5M McDonald vs Chicago man high on PCP spinning about brandishing knife is unjustly killed later in trial for first degree murder.
  • $3M Philando Castile Family Reaches $3 Million Settlement New York Times Policeman mistakenly believes black man is reaching for gun when he and girlfriend said he wasn't. 
  • $3M  Amadou Diallo (unarmed black man mistaken for suspect) shot on February 4, 1999  22-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers who mistook him for another suspect. In March 2004, his mother and father accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement. 

*Timeline

Leonard Thomas Jury awards nearly $15M to family of unarmed drunk mentally ill black man killed by SWAT sniper in Fife  July 14, 2017  Leonard Thomas, a 30-year-old father, was killed by police. (Thomas family photo)  A federal jury had found police violated the rights of 30-year-old Leonard Thomas when a family argument was escalated into a siege that ended when Thomas, a drunk and mentally ill black man, was shot by a sniper in front of his then-4-year-old son

Baltimore reaches $6.4 million settlement with Freddie ...The Washington Post Sep 8, 2015 - Baltimore officials have reached a $6.4 million settlement with the family of Freddie Gray, an agreement they say is the right step for a city still recovering from riots and demonstrations sparked by the 25-year-old's death from an injury suffered in police custody.

October 20, 2014 https://news.vice.com/article/graphic-footage-shows-chicago-cop-facing-murder-charge-spray-teen-with-bullets Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's police department tried to keep the footage sealed for more than a year. The city settled with McDonald's family for $5 million in the months after the shooting, and, while the family's attorney saw the video, it was never made public. But last Thursday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by freelance journalist Brandon Smith, Cook County Judge Franklin Valderrama ordered the city to release the footage.  video of the October 20, 2014 shooting does not show McDonald, who **was armed with a knife**, advancing toward Van Dyke [he was "spinning"], and that witnesses' testimony supports this version of events.Police have long maintained that McDonald had "lunged" at the officer, which provoked the fatal shooting. The Chicago police took steps immediately after the shooting to cover up evidence of the event, including reportedly deleting surveillance footage from a nearby Burger King. http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/20151124/archer-heights/laquan-mcdonald-video-shows-police-shooting-him-16-times  Police union officials initially said McDonald lunged at them with a knife. The video shows McDonald holding a knife and spinning while walking down the middle of the street. It's unclear when the first shot hits him — before or after the spin.


shooting of Amadou Diallo (unarmed black man mistaken for suspect) occurred on February 4, 1999, when Amadou Diallo, a 22-year-old immigrant from Guinea, was shot and killed by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss. The officers fired a combined total of 41 shots, 19 of which struck Diallo, outside his apartment at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx. The four were part of the now-defunct Street Crimes Unit. All four officers were charged with second-degree murder and acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.[1] Diallo was unarmed at the time of the shooting, and a firestorm of controversy erupted subsequent to the event as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and outside New York City. Issues such as police brutality, racial profiling, and contagious shooting were central to the ensuing controversy.  On April 18, 2000, Diallo's mother, Kadiatou, and his father Saikou Diallo, filed a US$61,000,000 ($20m plus $1m for each shot fired) lawsuit against the city and the officers, charging gross negligence, wrongful death, racial profiling, and other violations of Diallo's civil rights. In March 2004, they accepted a US$3,000,000 settlement. The much lower final settlement was still reportedly one of the largest in the City of New York for a single man with no dependents under New York State's "wrongful death law", which limits damages to pecuniary loss by the deceased person's next of kin.[13]

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Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big US Cities - WSJ
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The Wall Street JournalJul 15, 2015 - The 10 cities with the largest police departments paid out $248.7 million last year in settlements and court judgments in police-misconduct ...

Abner Louima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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WikipediaThe march was dubbed "Day of Outrage Against Police Brutality and Harassment. ...July 30, 2001, the largest police brutality settlement in New York City history.
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Chicago to pay $33 million to settle 2 cases of police ...
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Chicago TribuneJan 15, 2013 - Chicago to pay $33 million to settle 2 cases of police misconduct ... that may be the largest the city ever offered to a single victim of police misconduct. ... A $10.2 million settlement is proposed for one of the victims of notorious ...

North Charleston reaches $6.5 million settlement with ...
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The Washington PostOct 8, 2015 - North Charleston reaches $6.5 million settlement with Walter Scott's ...Former police officer Michael Slager, who is charged with murder for ...

NYPD Paid Nearly $1 Billion To Settle Lawsuits « CBS New ...
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WCBS‑TVOct 14, 2010 - New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly - File / Photo: Joe ...including one officer at least seven times on excessive force and brutality claims. ...Bell case was the city's largest settlement ever in a fatal police shooting.

Who Wins in Police Brutality Cases? Taxpayers Set to Pay ...
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Sep 9, 2015 - They are among the largest settlements in recent years, highlighting the soaring costs of police brutality cases. Yet, while taxpayers shell out ...

Largest Legal Settlements Against Police | MoneyTips
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The Huffington PostSep 11, 2015 - According to The Wall Street Journal, the ten U.S. cities with the largest police departments paid out a total of $248.7 million in settlements and ...

Baltimore paid $5 million in 4 years for police brutality ...
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Business InsiderApr 29, 2015 - Sait Serkan Gurbuz/ReutersPolice officers detaining a protester near ...or settlements in more than 100 cases alleging police brutality since 2011, ... The department has been far from ineffective, overseeing the largest drop in ...

Police Brutality and Wrongful Arrest: Verdicts & Settlements
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Jump to $8 Million Awarded in Pablo Gomez in San Diego Largest Police Misconduct Verdict - A Superior Court jury ordered the city of San Diego to pay $8 million in damages to ...$8 Million Awarded in Largest Police Misconduct Verdict A Superior Court jury ordered the city of San Diego to pay $8 million in damages to Pablo Gomez, who fell into a coma after allegedly being knocked to the ground by a San Diego police officer. During an altercation in January of 2006, Officer Joseph De Veaux pushed the San Diego resident backwards, causing him to hit his head on the pavement. Gomez suffered a five-inch skull fracture and fell into a coma for about a month after the incident. Although the courtroom found that Gomez suffered $11.5 million in damages, the panel found both the city and Gomez negligent. The officer was never disciplined and has since left the department to work as a private contractor in Iraq.

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Chicago TribuneJan 15, 2013 - Chicago to pay $33 million to settle 2 cases of police misconduct ... that may be the largest the city ever offered to a single victim of police misconduct. ... A $10.2 million settlement is proposed for one of the victims of notorious ...

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