'Money is not justice': Eric Garner's family say their $5.9million settlement wi

[Ptarmigan]

'Money is not justice': Eric Garner's family say their $5.9million settlement with the city is NOT a victory
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3161523/Money-not-justice-Eric-Garner-s-family-say-5-9million-settlement-city-NOT-victory.html

The relatives of an unarmed black man who died after being put in a white police officer's chokehold said Tuesday that the nearly $6 million settlement they reached with the city wasn't a victory as they continued pressing for federal civil rights charges.

'The victory will come when we get justice,' Eric Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, said a day after the $5.9 million settlement was announced.

'Justice,' added one of Garner's children, Emerald Snipes, 'is when somebody is held accountable for what they do.'

$5.9 million is good money right there! I want that!

On a serious, why accept it to begin with?

[DLR Pyro]

Money isn't justice but the garner family took the money anyhow.

[Chris_]

Money isn't justice but the garner family took the money anyhow.

Amazing how that works.

[RayRaytheSBS]

Money isn't justice but the garner family took the money anyhow.

Nope, they are going to milk it for all its worth in an attempt to get more money.... All in the name of 'justice'.

[txradioguy]

I heard Erick Ericsson saying the other day that there is a group in Ferguson trying to get the grand jury decision tossed.

The SJW's won't be happy until they get the lynching they want.

[SVPete]

Asking a question that is serious and whose answer I don't know, does this settlement preclude a civil lawsuit against the police officer who detained Garner? IF not, the city just hung that officer out to dry, because the act of settling is "proof" that he did something tortious, if not criminal. IOW if Garner's family sue him the city just increased his difficulty in defending himself 10- or 100-fold.

[Big Dog]

Asking a question that is serious and whose answer I don't know, does this settlement preclude a civil lawsuit against the police officer who detained Garner? IF not, the city just hung that officer out to dry, because the act of settling is "proof" that he did something tortious, if not criminal. IOW if Garner's family sue him the city just increased his difficulty in defending himself 10- or 100-fold.

Pete, that depends on the wording of the settlement. It may protect the officers, or it may not.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I think most of us would feel the same way if we were in their shoes.  The settlement takes away the additional stress of going through a years-long lawsuit process and punishes the city to some degree (Although not the officers directly), but at the same time I'm sure they don't feel like the scales of justice have balanced, either.

[JohnnyReb]

Like Chris Rock says, "If you don't want an ass whipping from the cops, OBEY THE LAW."...OR....you can hope to "sell" them to the cops.