Employ violent cops? Pay 14 million dollars

[TC Talks]

Denver just learned that letting the union thugs who run rouge "training workshops" inside the police department is a costly mistake. I guarantee every police department in the US will take notice.

This literally is helping defund police...

Jurors in Colorado on Friday ordered the city and county of Denver to pay $14 million in damages to 12 plaintiffs after finding that police officers used excessive force against them during demonstrations over the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

The civil case in the U.S. District Court of Colorado was the first in the nation in which a lawsuit accusing the police of misconduct during the 2020 protests went to trial, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyers, who added that it could set a precedent for other pending cases across the country involving police misconduct against protesters in the George Floyd demonstrations.

The jury of eight Coloradans concluded that the city and county failed to properly train its police and that as a result, officers violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights under the First and Fourth Amendments.

“The verdict is a message to the police department, to the highest echelons of the police department, but also a message to police departments all over the country,” said Mark Silverstein, legal director with the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado, which represented the plaintiffs in the case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/26/us/d ... uling.html

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

The city paid that out? That's interesting because an Ohio cop I know claimed that qualified immunity only protects officers when they do no wrong doing. Turns out it protects them no matter what. Blacks are the targets of the abuse and then the poor taxpayers(of whom many are Black) are on the hook to pay it out. Amazing how that works.

[TC Talks]

The city paid that out? That's interesting because an Ohio cop I know claimed that qualified immunity only protects officers when they do no wrong doing. Turns out it protects them no matter what. Blacks are the targets of the abuse and then the poor taxpayers(of whom many are Black) are on the hook to pay it out. Amazing how that works.

Hitting any organization in the wallet is effective...

[paul8539]

I have been victimized by the police several times. Each time, it was called 'necessary force'. Even a beating worse than Rodney King. I never got one cent from anybody for any of these.

[MotorCityRadioFreak]

I have been victimized by the police several times. Each time, it was called 'necessary force'. Even a beating worse than Rodney King. I never got one cent from anybody for any of these.

If so, you should have hired a decent attorney who won’t cower from the blue abusers.

[TC Talks]

I have been victimized by the police several times. Each time, it was called 'necessary force'. Even a beating worse than Rodney King. I never got one cent from anybody for any of these.

That's on you for being a dumbass. No one is above the law...

[paul8539]

The police are not above the law. They ARE the law. According to them, they can do anything they want as long as they call it 'necessary force'.

[TC Talks]

The police are not above the law. They ARE the law. According to them, they can do anything they want as long as they call it 'necessary force'.

Well I guess Denver just learned that's not correct, and perhaps a conversation with an attorney might be in your future.

[Ben Zonia]

Do you really think a nationalized STASI type force, with no effective oversight, would be less violent? Union thugs at least aren't centralized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi

[Lester The Nightfly]

The city paid that out? That's interesting because an Ohio cop I know claimed that qualified immunity only protects officers when they do no wrong doing. Turns out it protects them no matter what. Blacks are the targets of the abuse and then the poor taxpayers(of whom many are Black) are on the hook to pay it out. Amazing how that works.

Hitting any organization in the wallet is effective...

Nice in theory but in order to get the police department's attention the money needed to come directly out of the departments budget. What makes you think the police give a crap about Parks & Rec, the Fire department or anything else in the city government getting burned as long as their beloved department's funding remains untouched and unaffected?

[TC Talks]

The city paid that out? That's interesting because an Ohio cop I know claimed that qualified immunity only protects officers when they do no wrong doing. Turns out it protects them no matter what. Blacks are the targets of the abuse and then the poor taxpayers(of whom many are Black) are on the hook to pay it out. Amazing how that works.

Hitting any organization in the wallet is effective...

Nice in theory but in order to get the police department's attention the money needed to come directly out of the departments budget. What makes you think the police give a crap about Parks & Rec, the Fire department or anything else in the city government getting burned as long as their beloved department's funding remains untouched and unaffected?

You don't think that the leadership at the police department in Denver are going to be facing some dire consequences over the situation?

[lidoshuffle]

I have been victimized by the police several times. Each time, it was called 'necessary force'. Even a beating worse than Rodney King. I never got one cent from anybody for any of these.

You might want to re-evaluate what you do in your life that seems to bring you into negative interactions with law enforcement...

[lidoshuffle]

I have been victimized by the police several times. Each time, it was called 'necessary force'. Even a beating worse than Rodney King. I never got one cent from anybody for any of these.

If so, you should have hired a decent attorney who won’t cower from the blue abusers.

How about he stops breaking the law, you know when that happens, police show up, I know that is very inconvenient, especially if you're committing a crime...

[TC Talks]

I have been victimized by the police several times. Each time, it was called 'necessary force'. Even a beating worse than Rodney King. I never got one cent from anybody for any of these.

If so, you should have hired a decent attorney who won’t cower from the blue abusers.

How about he stops breaking the law, you know when that happens, police show up, I know that is very inconvenient, especially if you're committing a crime...

Aren't we drawing some broad conclusions tonight... There are plenty of bad cops messing with good citizens these days.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... _brutality

[Lester The Nightfly]

The city paid that out? That's interesting because an Ohio cop I know claimed that qualified immunity only protects officers when they do no wrong doing. Turns out it protects them no matter what. Blacks are the targets of the abuse and then the poor taxpayers(of whom many are Black) are on the hook to pay it out. Amazing how that works.

Hitting any organization in the wallet is effective...

Nice in theory but in order to get the police department's attention the money needed to come directly out of the departments budget. What makes you think the police give a crap about Parks & Rec, the Fire department or anything else in the city government getting burned as long as their beloved department's funding remains untouched and unaffected?

You don't think that the leadership at the police department in Denver are going to be facing some dire consequences over the situation?

No. Denver isn't as liberal as people seem to think. Sure, just because Colorado was the first state to establish a recreational marijuana market doesn't mean they don't or won't support whatever the police do there. Drive 10 minutes away from Invesco Field (2001–11)/Sports Authority Field (2011–18)/ Broncos Stadium (2018–19)/Empower Field (2020 - present) and it gets conservative pretty quickly. If the police lose the lawsuit, they'll only get a hand slap. Maybe no new surplus tanks from the Army for a year...