Cops proceed to violently abuse their energy and proceed to value cities billions, with a “b”, of {dollars} over the course of years. A Washington Submit report acknowledged that between 2012-2022, police departments settled close to 40,000 officer misconduct claims that totaled $3.2 billion. Not solely is the brutality legal, immoral, and infrequently bigoted, on a extra superficial degree, it’s unhealthy for cities and taxpayers.
In accordance with Open Vallejo (OV), Nakia Porter, a Black girl, was crushed unconscious by Solano County Sheriff’s deputies Dalton McCampbell and Lisa McDowell after she and her father pulled over their automotive to modify seats. The next lawsuit that Porter filed mentioned that with out authorized justification, she was handcuffed, thrown to the bottom, knocked unconscious, and brought to jail. On account of the Aug. 6, 2020 incident, the town of Vallejo agreed to a $17 million settlement which is 3 times greater than the most important settlement the town has ever issued.
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As is typical in a majority of these circumstances, the settlement doesn’t include any degree of accountability and paradoxically comes with excuses or outright denial of any wrongdoing.
“The events acknowledge that every one claims and causes of motion referring to the incident are disputed, together with with respect to the underlying information,” Solano County spokesperson Matthew A. Davis wrote in an announcement to Open Vallejo Tuesday. “The County made the choice to settle after cautious analysis of the dangers, prices, and time related to protracted litigation.”
Pathetic. These feckless statements not solely erode public belief, they insult our intelligence. Not a single particular person on this Earth with eyes and ears believes {that a} metropolis would pay out eight figures to a person the place they had been utterly harmless. It’s nonsensical, irrational, and insulting.
So as to add additional insult to this damage, OV reviews that again in September, Solano County accepted an $11.2 million measure to permit these identical division of sheriff’s deputies to patrol the internal metropolis. In 2022 the California Division of Justice launched an investigation within the Metropolis of Vallejo for the egregious variety of officer concerned shootings that had occurred. Mysteriously, following that investigation, the town’s police division hasn’t killed a single particular person. Fascinating, to say the least.
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