The going rate for civil servants killing unarmed black people
Yesterday, Michael Brown's parents, Lezley McSpadden and Michael Brown Jr., received a $1.5 million settlement in response to their wrongful death suit against Ferguson, Missouri. That city is the former employer of police officer Darren Wilson.Lilly Workneh at Huffington Post points out that the sum is slightly more than the $1.26 million a white Maryland family got when an officer shot and killed their dog in February of 2014.
Not only is it appropriate here to make note of this obscenity of American jurisprudence in devaluing Brown's life over that of a friggin' dog, I'm sure that none of us can easily imagine a scenario in which a black family sees even a dime if police shoot their dog.
posted by CM @ 8:43 PM
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