Justice Gone Crazy - NYC Gives Man Money for Threatening Police
Every city has its share of frivolous lawsuits to contend with. Any idiot that can’t figure out how to walk down the street or act like an intelligent human being is all-too-willing to sue the city and make some money from their own incompetence. But this latest case takes the cake. A man that threatened to attack police offers with a machete back in 2010 was just given $5000 as a result of his crime.
Why did he deserve any money at all? Well, one officer, feeling that the man might pose a danger to his health and the lives of fellow officers, shot the man in the leg. Money-grubbing lawyers apparently thought this was a good opportunity to make a quick buck, so they filed a $3 million lawsuit. The city, in order to avoid the costly BS involved with a full-scale trial, offered the man $5000 to go away. And he did, because he likely knew he hadn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. Still, this sort of thing is just too ridiculous. The lawyers that are willing to take these cases need to be kicked across river and made to do business somewhere else.
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