Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Yvonne Wenger - Baltimore Sun: Baltimore to Pay Freddie Gray’s Family $6.4 Million to Settle Civil Claims - White cops need to keep pulling away from suicidal inner-city policing. --tma


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The Rawlings-Blake administration plans to pay Freddie Gray’s family $6.4 million as a settlement for civil claims in his arrest and death–an extraordinary payment in a lawsuit against city police.
The settlement–which is expected to be approved at Wednesday’s meeting of the city’s spending panel–will be paid out over two years, according to the mayor’s office. The five-member board is controlled by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.
The payment is larger than the total of more than 120 other lawsuits brought against the police department for alleged brutality and misconduct since 2011. ...