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99th_Monkey

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3. I totally wish all these settlements triggered by bully & killer-cops

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Jan 29, 2015, 08:37 PM

Jan 2015

...were paid out of the police retirement funds & pensions, rather than General Funds of cities already
struggling to keep their infrastructures in repair and their schools open.

Now THAT would have an immediate effect of stopping all the police abuse
of unarmed innocent citizens in a heart-beat.

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Family of Akai Gurley planning to sue city for $50m in fatal NYPD shooting [View all] Eugene Jan 2015 OP

FIFTY MILLION? THAT IS RIDICULOUS! Warren Stupidity Jan 2015 #1

I hope they named that fucker Lynch in the suit. n/t pkdu Jan 2015 #2

I totally wish all these settlements triggered by bully & killer-cops 99th_Monkey Jan 2015 #3

I like your idea, too. There are ways to deal with these things appropriately. libdem4life Jan 2015 #5

Cops should have to carry personal liability insurance like many professionals have to carry Errors libdem4life Jan 2015 #4