Eric Garner’s Family REJECTS $5,000,000 Settlement From The NYPD

[Cebu_4_2]

Eric Garner’s Family REJECTS $5,000,000 Settlement From The NYPD (http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/07/eric-garners-family-rejects-5000000-settlement-from-the-nypd/)


New York City officials say that the family of Eric Garner just rejected their cash settlement offer of $5,000,000. The money was offered in order to settle a suit filed in the wrongful death of Garner, 43, after an NYPD police officer choked him to death for selling lose cigarettes in New York City.

The Garner family is said to have refused the NYPD offer, saying that they will ask instead for a more punishing suit of $75 million within the week.

That suit has to be filed by the 17th of this month, which is the anniversary of Garner’s death.

Family required to file a suit by Friday – the anniversary of Garner’s death

New York’s top finance official, Scott Stringer, offered the family the $5 million payout, if they promise not to sue the police or the city, according to the New York Daily News.

Garner’s widow Esaw Garner, said there is no way they would let the NYPD get away with killing Garner and paying such a relatively small amount.

Garner’s death made international headlines, after the NYPD put him in a chokehold over nothing other than selling untaxed cigarettes. Garner went into cardiac arrest and died in custody.

As in many cases of police killings, there is a federal probe into Garner’s death, being carried out by the Justice Department, but few expect any meaningful findings to arise from this investigation.

Garner’s last words of “I can’t breathe” were yelled, gasped and choked out 11 times before he passed out. Those words have now become rallying cries in protests across the nation, standing up against police brutality and murder.
(Article by Reagan Ali)

[EE_]

I hope they get the $75 million.

[madfranks]

You know what's funny? They'll likely get a jury stuffed with state-worshippers who think he deserved to die for black market cigarette selling, and find the cops actions "reasonable."

[monty]

If he bought the cigarettes retail the tax was paid. He was simply reselling his own property.

[Cebu_4_2]

If he bought the cigarettes retail the tax was paid. He was simply reselling his own property.

Yes but you have to collect tax on resale too unless you have a resale license.

[Shami-Amourae]

Dindus aren't worth $3.50.

[expat4ever]

Yes but you have to collect tax on resale too unless you have a resale license.
You have to have a tobacco license to sell cigs.
If you have a resale license you can buy tax free but you must collect the tax. If yo dont have a license then you pay tax when you first purchase the item.
If he purchased the smokes outside of the state then he would be in trouble for sure. Apparently what he did constituted him being killed.
As usual, first they do this stuff to the black man because black lives dont matter, then when everyone is desensitized enough they start on the white man too.

[ximmy]

Dindus aren't worth $3.50.

How dey poz support on juz five mil?
75 mil buy more bling...

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mWgoJmLRTC1KZKfFNrWAXgA.jpg

[expat4ever]

If they get the restitution
there be no more prostitution
and then the revolution
with start a new evolution
and we all know thats the solution.

[crimethink]

I hope they get the $75 million.

Since you don't have to pay it, of course you do! Yo, let's heah it fo' da Nigger Lottery!

Not one dime will be paid by any pig with a badge.

[crimethink]

Dindus aren't worth $3.50.

Everyone is focusing on the petty "crime" that he was committing that day, instead of the fact he was a born criminal living a chronic life of crime. Did he deserve to die that way? No. Do the taxpayers deserve to be robbed by his "family"? Absolutely not.

[crimethink]

As usual, first they do this stuff to the black man because black lives dont matter


If "Black lives matter," why do Blacks murder thousands of Blacks each year in the United States?




then when everyone is desensitized enough they start on the white man too.

You mean like Kelly Thomas?

So far, Thomas' family has gotten SHIT from the Fullerton Police Department...not even a settlement offer. The pigs were acquitted. Since Thomas was a White man, the Jewsmedia didn't harp on it endlessly.

[Canadian-guerilla]

You know what's funny? They'll likely get a jury stuffed with state-worshippers who think he deserved to die for black market cigarette selling, and find the cops actions "reasonable."

take the 5 mil and run . . .

[Canadian-guerilla]

Doh.

[Shami-Amourae]

If "Black lives matter," why do Blacks murder thousands of Blacks each year in the United States?





You mean like Kelly Thomas?

So far, Thomas' family has gotten SHIT from the Fullerton Police Department...not even a settlement offer. The pigs were acquitted. Since Thomas was a White man, the Jewsmedia didn't harp on it endlessly.

The only reason anyone knows about that is because of the John and Ken Show.

[Ponce]

How dey poz support on juz five mil?
75 mil buy more bling...

http://thumbs2.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mWgoJmLRTC1KZKfFNrWAXgA.jpg

ximmy? thanks for finally posting a picture of your boy friend...nice yellow jacket.

V

[ShortJohnSilver]

I think they should settle for $8 million - however, the pensions of the cops involved have to be liquidated for their net present value, first. Including the useless black female LT who was in charge, and denied the guy medical care.

[cheka.]

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Politically independent, issues oriented and unapologetically Black.

Reggie volunteers with the Garner Way Foundation as the Political Director. He has worked for the Democratic Campaign Committee , where he facilitated operations on the North Shore of Staten Island, New York for a congressional candidate's campaign during the time when Eric Garner was killed.

He has consulted on several campaigns in New Jersey and New York. In 2007 he worked in Cincinnati with Working America AFL-CIO in support of President Barack Obama and for Organizing for America during the 2012 presidential campaign Cleveland, Ohio. More recently he has worked in New York City organizing around education reform issues.

Reggie attended Florida A&M University where he studied Political Science and he currently resides in Oakland, California. Currently he serves as the Director of Organizing at the Black Organizing Project.

Unless otherwise stated his views are his own
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