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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLouisville has settled Breonna Taylor's wrongful death lawsuit for $12 million
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/15/us/breonna-taylor-louisville-settlement/index.htmlSo basically the city (the predominantly black citizens and tax payers) will pay millions....while the cops who probably don't even live in the city get off...
KWR65
(1,098 posts)It won't be coming out of their pockets.
DFW
(54,372 posts)THEN they might have cared.
Proud liberal 80
(4,167 posts)electric_blue68
(14,891 posts)while $$$ can't replace a valued, loved family member (or a friend) since the general cycle (not counting those who don't) is for a child/children to help their folks in old age. This will help that one important aspect.
I think changing the monies from taxes to the pension funds might be the way to go as pointed out it might force the better cops to get rid of the overtly violent racist one while other efforts root out systemic racism in policing like having police live in the city, area they're proctecting, community policing, genuine meet ups etc.
Of course, getting police to start (and a lot of white people in general) to "just" See black people (esp men, black teen, tweens, kids) as not automatically criminals, harmful at the leaat (!) to start to break this violent intermitable cycle.