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Philando Castile Settlement Shows White America Willingly Pays for White Supremacy
White America has always shown a willingness and a boundless patience when it comes to paying for white supremacy. Not in the moral sense or the spiritual sense or the greater-good-for-mankind sense, but in the actual dollars-and-cents sense. Racial discrimination is actually rather expensive and has been throughout time. Slavery was expensive and borderline inefficient,…
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Tomi Lahren Settles Lawsuit Against Glenn Beck and TheBlaze
Tomi Lahren has settled her lawsuit against former employer Glenn Beck and his website TheBlaze. According to the Dallas Morning News, Lahren is now free to go about her hate-spewing life after being released from her contract four months early. Lahren, who says she was suspended because of her pro-choice views, filed the lawsuit last…
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Pa. Pizza Deliveryman Shot Multiple Times by Police Gets $4,400,000 Settlement
A Philadelphia pizza deliveryman who was shot multiple times after plainclothes police officers fired 14 times at his vehicle has agreed to a $4.4 million settlement with the city, the Associated Press reports. Philippe Holland still has bullet fragments in his brain and suffers from a seizure disorder after being hit in the head, neck…
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Man Accidentally Locked in Chicago Jail for 31 Hours Receives $600,000 Settlement
In July 2014, Farad Polk went to Chicago’s Cook County Jail to visit his son who’d been locked up on a drug charge. After being told by correctional officers at the jail to go down a hallway, Polk found himself locked inside a empty maximum security visiting area for over 30 hours. On Monday, Polk…
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Donald Trump Settles Trump University Fraud Cases for $25,000,000
President-elect Donald Trump agreed to a $25 million settlement Friday to end the Trump University fraud cases. As the Washington Post notes, the settlement eliminates the possibility that Trump will be called to testify in court while he transitions into the presidency. It also ends three separate lawsuits, including two in California and a civil…
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Family of Rikers Island Inmate Who Died From Untreated Ulcer Receives $1,500,000 Settlement
The family members of Victor Woods, 53, reached a $1.5 million settlement with New York City after Woods died from untreated, bleeding ulcers while incarcerated at Rikers Island, according to the New York Daily News. Woods’ relatives sued the city after he slowly bled to death internally on a cot at the Anna M. Kross…
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NYC to Settle With Family of Akai Gurley for $4,100,000
New York City has agreed to pay more than $4 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit with the family of Akai Gurley, who was fatally shot by a city police officer in the stairwell of a housing project in the city’s Brooklyn borough, the New York Post reports. According to the report, the city…
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Family of Martin Luther King Jr. Settles Dispute Over 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Medal
The family of Martin Luther King Jr. has settled a disagreement over what to do with the civil rights icon’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize medal, although the terms of the settlement are not exactly known, Reuters reports. A judge confirmed that the matter was settled in an Atlanta court Monday. The trial to settle the…
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NYC Settles With Family of Avonte Oquendo for $2,700,000
The city of New York is paying out $2.7 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Avonte Oquendo, the autistic boy whose body was found in New York City’s East River in January 2014 three months after he disappeared from his Queens, N.Y., school, the New York Daily News reports.…
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St. Louis Police Department Has Paid Out $4,700,000 to Settle 44 Cases Since 2010: Report
The St. Louis Police Department has doled out $4.7 million since 2010 to settle some 44 cases, some of which include allegations of injuries or wrongful imprisonment or death, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The Post-Dispatch reviewed some payouts had not previously been publicized. One of the cases, the 2011 fatal shooting of Anthony Lamar…