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THE CITY OF New York has agreed to pay more than $4 million (€3.5 million) to the family of an unarmed black father of one, who was shot dead by a police officer.
Akai Gurley, 28, was shot in a darkened stairwell of a public housing building in November 2014 after taking the stairs when the elevator took too long to arrive in the poorly maintained apartment block.
He was killed by a police bullet that ricocheted off the wall.
Gurley’s death, as with those of other unarmed black men at the hands of police, sparked nationwide protests and debate about police tactics and allegations of institutional racism.
Settlement
The total settlement comes to more than $4.5 million (€3.98 million), with $4.1 million (€3.6 million) payable by the city, $400,000 (€350,000) by the housing authority and $25,000 (€22,000) by the officer who shot Gurley, a lawyer for the family told AFP.
Peter Liang, who had been on the force just months, was found guilty of manslaughter by jury in February and sacked from the police.
In April, a judge downgraded his conviction to criminally negligent homicide and sentenced him to five years probation and 800 hours community service.
Gurley’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city in May 2015.
The settlement was reached on Monday afternoon in the Brooklyn Supreme Court. Kimberly Ballinger, the mother of Gurley’s four-year-old daughter, is pleased with the results, her lawyer Scott Rynecki said.
“She wants to be able to move on with her life and she now hopes she can raise the child to be someone Akai would be proud of,” he told AFP.
The funds will be held in a trust for Gurley’s daughter, although her mother, a home health aide, can request monthly payments to help bring her up, he said.
Sweet suffering Jesus..
They are an embarrassment. . Pathetic individuals. .
Wasters,so close to doing away with them
@ Poole. .sometimes the comment of the week can be so dam obvious..except you forgot the blasphemy law..should have been jasyus. .
First rejected by the Electorate and now rejected by the G.A.A. geez people have a little bit of sympathy for the poor auld pathetic losers
After reading these articles, I wonder, would it be better to just get WW3 started and over with.
and Nobel Peace Prize winning Obama starts it, now that would be ironic and scary at the same time
Millennials would have to get used to eating bugs
To think we could of gotten rid of them all……..
What were we thinking! Michele Mulherrin makes me want to blow the place up
Guy Fawkes the place into dust…
The sense of entitlement from these people is something else. Do they really think they are so important? Thankfully they will get more than €5 from the budget and they might “purchase” a ticket like everybody else.
If they are worried about how the Seanad is currently perceived then I suggest they shut up
BarryK or even move out??
Fine Gael once again embarrassing themselves. The gene pool is so weak.
I agree. Not surprising with their weak leader Enda. What a shower of idiots run this country now. Last lot were crooks and this lot are clowns !
No Geraldine McFadden, you not getting all Ireland ticket for free is not an issue.. What an issue is, is the amount of homeless people sleeping rough in cities around our country. An issue is the lack of affordable childcare in this country. An issue is the amount of young people immigrating due to the lack of job prospects. An issue is low income families slipping into poverty while you have some sense of entitlement to an all Ireland ticket, even though you have a massive wage? Cop yourself on woman. You are suppose to be sorting out the real issues in the country, not your petty idea of what an “issue” is
@Breda Jennings: The people voted to keep this waste of space open.
I wonder will these two Senators be going to either the Dublin or Mayo league games in February,Somehow I don’t think so.
Neither TD’s nor Senators should be getting privileges like these, the sooner the realise they put on their pants one leg at a time, just like the rest of use, the better. Unless I’m mistaken and they do in fact have “dressers” to help them get ready in the morning. Maybe there is a Dresser Expense?! If so will we someday have claims for mental distress from dressers who saw things they can never unsee. Regardless, TD’s, in theory anyway, do far more important work so if anyone is getting tickets it’s that shower. The upper house needs to start acting like the upper house! In short, go and shte.
The emperor has no clothes.
We had our chance. The upper house has had no real impact since the founding of the state. Ultimate departure lounge. A few notable exceptions of course but mainstream full of brown nosing yes men. Shame on us.
“It certainly drew a clear line between Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann in this case”. So as long as they’re the other side of the line?
“I never go to any games but I should be entitled to a ticket for the All-Ireland. To hell with a ticket for the wife and kids of the player who hardly sees his family because he trains 5 days a week between club and county after days work.
You know what, I’ll buy them a ticket for the Ladies All-Ireland. That should shut them up.
Aww the poor little self entitled man, his gravy train isn’t as luscious as a TD/Ministers one so he’s whinging in the Seanad about it. Mulherin made a show of herself on the Drivetime last month now this buffoon is doing the same.
Find a corner to die in you moany f#$%wits!!!! (the tds)
First world problems!
Please Mr. Kenny give us an other chance to get RID of these wasters. After all it would not be the first time we voted on the same issue.
What a waste of space these oversubscribed plebs have in our lives. Gawd give me strength to do no harm……because I am mightily sick of these PARASITES or in common language MAGPIES
Am I allowed say go f**k yourself?
Yes
Like Elsa said lads, let it go!
Dear lord. This is the party running the country. # embarrassingtwits.
Aleppo is disappearing under a cloud of dead children and these gomsheens can only discus themselves and……oh foook it words have left me.
Jesus Christ,no wonder we are where we are.talk about self obsessed,greedy,elitist,arrogant,opinion they have of themselves.
Tough sh!t get a life and do some of the work you’re supposed to do
If her crib is, that TDs get them and she doesn’t maybe the GAA just take the tickets off the TDs too, god she’s some ball bag
We need a change from the same old system that benefits the few. Up the people.
Dear Michelle Mulherin, I like many other working class people, buy a season ticket every year so I have the opportunity to watch my team if they get to a final. But your plight has touched my heart. I shed tears when I first heard your story Michelle. How wholly unjust it was that you couldn’t get a ticket to support your beloved Mayo in their quest for the holy fail. Well fear not Michelle, I will pledge you my ticket for the 2017 final if Mayo get there. I urge everyone in a similar position to give up their hard worked for tickets also. Because Michelle so obviously deserves it more than you do.
*Holy grail! Though fail is also apt ☺
Plenty of roles for mulherin in the Kenyan seanad, it’s almost as feeble but the weather is great!
Nominated senators are different, they’re people who aren’t popular enough to be elected democratically
Whingers with a sense of entitlement. Get lost
Oh for f##k sake
The people told them to f**k of after the last election, are they deaf
It’s no wonder this country is f$$$ed. what a crowd of fools. We are worse for putting up with failed politicians and Enda’s cronies!
Greedy, useless, fat cats. Support your local club and you’ll get a ticket. You don’t represent the people, those of you not given a free seat in the Seanad are there because of an exceptionally elitist election process.
Why are we still feeding these gondolas???
Come on Enda let us vote to abolish them again….I think the clowns who voted against it might not be so foolish this time.
The way they talk and the language used…..such pompous pr..ks
Who the f*ck are these people!? Elected by nobody to represent nobody but themselves until they fail again at the next election. Although you’ve gotta take your hat off to them, trying to get as much out of the gravy train while they’re on it!
A useless club for FAILED politicians
This is an interesting sense of entitlement from people who have not been elected by public plebiscite. It is right and proper that the GAA does not favour senators over the members of the public who attend games for the love of the sport rather than to be seen. In addition, a senator represents a panel, a college or the Taoiseach’s choice – all national rather than regional constituencies. Hence the GAA are justified.
Go buy a season ticket for their county if they want one that badly
If only we’d known during the run-up to the referendum on abolishing the Seanad that this was going to happen then the result might’ve been different…
The GAA are justified in not providing preferential treatment to senators. They are elected an elite rather than the public, which makes them not as special as TDs who face a popular vote. In addition, they represent national rather than rural constitencies.
Will ye give it a rest
How many of them go to matches I sick off people jumping on the band wagon when it comes to finals and haven’t gone to other matches what makes them more important than me or other football
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