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Racism

Eric Garner’s Family Settles With City for $5.9 Million

“No sum of money can make this family whole, but hopefully the Garner family can find some peace and finality from today’s settlement,” Mayor de Blasio said yesterday. “By reaching a resolution, family and other loved ones can move forward even though we know they will never forget this tragic incident.”

Eric Garner’s death was ruled a homicide by the coroner’s office when police officer Daniel Pantaleo used an illegal chokehold on him while attempting an arrest. Garner’s family initially requested $75 million, but settled for $5.9 million instead. Officer Pantaleo was never indicted in Garner’s death and is still working with the police department.

In an interview with the New York Post, Ed Mullins of the Police Benevolent Association expressed his anger and frustration at the settlement;

“Where is the justice for New York taxpayers?” he asked. ” Where is the consistency in the civil system? In my view, the city has chosen to abandon its fiscal responsibility to all of its citizens and genuflect to the select few who curry favor with the city government.”

“Mr. Garner’s family should not be rewarded simply because he repeatedly chose to break the law and resist arrest,” Mullins concluded.

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Ebola

Settlement Reached in Eric Duncan’s Ebola Death

The Dallas hospital that sent Eric Duncan home when he tried getting help from his Ebola symptoms, has reached a settlement with Duncan’s family, according to the family’s lawyer.

According to their attorneys, a resolution has been “reached on behalf of the children and parents of the deceased with Texas Health Resources and all related entities.”  The resolution includes a financial settlement and a charitable contribution. No further monetary details were disclosed.

Duncan returned from his native Liberia to Texas on September 20 and came to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas 5 days later complaining of stomach pains, dizziness, nausea and headaches. He had a temperature of 103 degrees.

During Duncan’s five hour stay, he informed health workers that he had recently been to Liberia, but the attending physician was not told. Duncan was released from the hospital later that day only to return September 30 in an ambulance — officially the first person to be diagnosed in the United States with Ebola.

The hospital would later receive a lot of criticism on their initial decision to send him home.  Although two nurses at the hospital were later infected, Duncan was the only one to die of the disease.

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Politics

Family of Jordan Davis Settles Civil Case Against Jordan’s Killer – Video

The family of a teenager killed in 2012 after an argument with an older man over loud music at a Florida gas station has settled their civil suit against the shooter for an undisclosed sum.

The Florida Times Union reported Friday that defendant Michael Dunn, a 47-year-old software engineer accepted a civil settlement offer made by the family of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old student from Marietta, Ga., who had been living in Jacksonville with family at the time he was killed.

Dunn’s criminal trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 3.

The case carries echoes of the Trayvon Martin affair: both victims were black teenagers shot by older white men claiming fear for their lives. In the Dunn case, however, the defendant appears to be preparing a formal Stand Your Ground legal defense, claiming that Davis and his friends had pointed a weapon at him before he opened fire. No weapon possessed by the teenagers has been recovered by police.

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Featured

Republican Deadbeat Joe Walsh Settles his $117,000 Child Support Bill

Joe Walsh – who attacked president Obama over “fiscal responsibility” only to be shamed after reports surfaced that he owed over $117,000 in back child support – has come to terms with his ex-wife over what he’s calling a “misunderstanding.”

Neither side would disclose the terms of the settlement, but Walsh’s office released a joint statement from him and his ex-wife Thursday morning saying the two sides had resolved the dispute and that Walsh (R-McHenry) is not a “deadbeat dad.”

“We both regret this public misunderstanding and the effect it has had on our children,” the statement says. “Like many families, we have had our share of issues and made our share of mistakes over the years. Having resolved these issues together and cleared up these mistakes in private, we now agree that Joe is not and was not a ‘deadbeat dad’ and does not owe child

The statement continued: “We both have been loving and devoted parents to our children, ages 24, 21, and 17, and are happy to avoid a public legal fight hurtful to our entire family and look forward to caring for our children in private.”

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