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The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com |
The city of Aurora has reached a $1.9 million settlement with a Black family from Colorado after police held four juvenile relatives at gunpoint. The settlement was finalized Monday, the family’s attorney David Lane told The Post. No officers were fired or charged in connection with the incident.
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@tmoney2007.bsky.social
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Now watch them increase funding for the police department this year as if a bit more money is all that is standing between them and effective policing that doesn't result in gross violations of constitutional rights,...
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Wrecked
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The amount of taxpayer dollars going to settlements for police being absolute garbage is ASTRONOMICAL. What are politicians and lawmakers but gluttons for waste and human suffering. 🤔
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Downpuppy
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Aurora. Again. "a deeply engrained culture of racially biased policing in the department", as the state investigation after they murdered Elijah McClain said (no paywall)-
apnews.com/article/hand...
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Alexander Chee
@alexanderchee.bsky.social
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“Children”?
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Louisa
@louisathelast.bsky.social
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You can just say “children.”
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Dante Vortex
@dantevortex.bsky.social
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People drool over the age and the race of these women, but if you all forget that detail and just get back to the core. "Why" do cops do this? Just try to relief your head of all the racist thoughts for just 5 seconds and just think straight. Cops are paranoid in the US, and with good reason.
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@jrmelanconjr.bsky.social
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The attorney’s name is David Lane? Kinda funny.
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Palomino Wolf
@palominowolf.bsky.social
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This needs to come out of the perpetrators pockets, not the tax payers.
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Gaius (from Tribunate)
@gaius.bsky.social
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I’m sure that paid time off and a penalty paid entirely by taxpayers will teach the police not to do this again
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mxhrad
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The never ending police cycle - psychopaths in the police department go too far, get sued, tax payers end up paying the bill, psychopaths keep their jobs to do it again
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Facetiously Esoteric
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Until we can reply with equal or greater force to stop the constant crimes of police it won't stop.
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