Ghetto Lottery Again
- The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $55,000 to a South Side mom who was Tasered by a cop when she was eight months pregnant.
Tiffany Rent, 31, sued the city after [the officer] used his stun gun to subdue her in front of her two young children during a dispute about a parking ticket outside a Walgreens store on June 5 last year.
She claimed two other officers, [...], mocked and laughed at her as she writhed in pain.
And what exactly provoked this outrageous response from officers?
- But the city denied that allegation and also said the officers didn’t know Rent was pregnant. Rent was Tasered after she parked in a disabled spot, then tore up a parking ticket and refused to show an ID to Pippen, police said at the time.
The settlement city attorneys agreed with Rent last week “is not, in any way, an admission of wrongdoing by the City or any officers involved,” Law Department spokesman Roderick Drew said.
And the loud obnoxious behavior mentioned in the case reports? The wild swinging of the arms and kicking? The announcement of being placed under arrest and then fighting being handcuffed? That would fit the ILCS definition of an Active Resister and an Assailant, both covered under the Use of Force model as actions where a Taser can be deployed.
And here comes McOpenMouth-InsertFoot with his two cents worth:
And here comes McOpenMouth-InsertFoot with his two cents worth:
- In the aftermath of the incident, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said stun guns should be used “when you’re overcoming an assault or preventing escape.”
Um, yeah, no shit McDumbAss. It's in all the reports.
How about asking the pregnant assailant/resister why she felt the need to act like a complete asshole in front of her kids, the general public - oh yeah, the payout. Sorry. Forgot for a moment.
And the pregnancy "excuse" has been discounted in numerous cases across the country, Hawaii and Washington being the two that pop up when you search for incidents. But not here in Cook County, where Chicago's checkbook is always open.
How about asking the pregnant assailant/resister why she felt the need to act like a complete asshole in front of her kids, the general public - oh yeah, the payout. Sorry. Forgot for a moment.
And the pregnancy "excuse" has been discounted in numerous cases across the country, Hawaii and Washington being the two that pop up when you search for incidents. But not here in Cook County, where Chicago's checkbook is always open.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
62 Comments:
It sure beats going to trial and possibly losing. Everyone fails to realize that when the city settles no copper has to pay a dime. Yeah it sucks but all the coppers involved didn't have to pay. So consider it a win
This is a perfect example of how this city is ass backwards and why things are out of control. Reward bad behavior... Ya that will solve alot.
Why the fuck is everyone so afraid of these fucken savages I'll never understand
I Love using Sabre Foam Pepper Spray,I have broken up fights involving 20-30 people in 2 seconds.
"It's like a slot machine that never fails to pay out."
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A parallel statement aptly describes Tiffany Rent's entitlement-producing vagina. Every "pull of the handle" comes up...
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Off topic, but maybe a future lottery player...Sun-Times.com had a story about the drunk ASA from last fall. Her and her boyfriend were aquitted on all charges. Just another head-scratcher of a story.
You must remember, the good people of this fine city don't like the police very much. I was punched on video and me and my partner took him to the floor and cuffed him. We didnt punch or kick and we were still found guilty of excessive force. IT WAS ALL ON VIDEO!!! It's not the act. It doesnt matter if you're right or if you've followed the use of force to the letter. These idiots will give these pricks money no matter what.
One of the gambling boats will take the money plus whatever else the State gives her.
Ain't that a big ole bitch!!!!!
Proactive means what now?
All indications were that the officers involved did this by the numbers. Right?
"I acted a damned fool in front of my kids... I got my fat, pregnant and ignorant ass Tased in front of my kids... The Po-Leece Hur-ted my feelins' too. They was bogus. Gimme money and I'll go away!"
Anybody that does a proactive anything in the Catered To Constituent free-fire zones is a fool.
When the City administration makes a conscious decision to give these mutts a Policeman's back like this, who the fuck do you think the underlying message is for?
Chicago doesn't WANT A POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Respond.
Drop Paper.
Disengage.
Leave Quickly.
Come Clear.
The Modern Chicago Policing equivalent of the cold, soggy hotdog on a plain bun with no trimmings, no fries and a glass of warm water to wash it down with.
What? People are still "being fed," right? It might not be what they're used to but nonetheless...
"WAH! You guys are lazy and scared! We want da mustard, relish, sport peppers, pickle, onions, celery salt, warm poppy seed bun, fries and a drink that you guys gave us for years! Stop trying to play it safe and stop thinking about your retirement and trying to escape!"
Keep rewarding bad behavior. Wait til the next time she gets lippy with the police. She'll be even worse, knowing she got away with it (and paid) last time. The downfall of society.
SCC wrote: How about asking the pregnant assailant/resister why she felt the need to act like a complete asshole in front of her kids, the general public...
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Maybe McCarthy empathizes with the offender. Wasn't this pretty similar to his ex-wife's behavior when she and he were arrested in the daughter's parking ticket incident?
Go back to the big apple McPus leave Shitcago to the real police. Shields will be back soon.
As a tax payer and an AA woman, the fact the city rewarded this hoodrat with a settlement makes me angry. Many people in the black community accused me of having no compassion because I believed the officer was correct in his actions and she acted the damn fool and was subdued. This chick should have NOT been rewarded for her disrespectful behavior. This settlement is straight bullshit!
I'm so sick of these ghetto trash people getting payouts for acting like shitheads.
Pretty soon the black youth wilding mobs will be lawyering up and getting paid because police violated their "civil rights"
Glad I moved away from chicago!!
How dare thoes coppers taze that poor woman!!!
They tramatized thoes poor children's !!!!
Well give her money she deserves it
Murder Mayor
Something else to look forward to.........there is no bad behavior anymore.
West Side, Inside Do-Nothing said...
"It's like a slot machine that never fails to pay out."
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A parallel statement aptly describes Tiffany Rent's entitlement-producing vagina. Every "pull of the handle" comes up...
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4/06/2013 12:49:00 AM
You sir, missed your true calling. Ain't no humor like cop humor.
1.Even if you are right, you are perceived to be wrong.
2. Its all lawyers, he gets 30% of that for doing nothing but filing paper. Its cheaper for them to settle than it is for them to pay the city lawyers to actually defend the officers to prove innocence.
3. All this does is send a message to all the other ghetto rats to act a fool, break the law and get paid, oh yeah AFTER the scumbag lawyer takes 30%. Only in America and the great Shitty of Chicago.
That's a really cheap settlement for a case that could have been a gigantic punitive damages award against the officers. Imagine what a jury would have done with that case....
And she recently shit out another leach fo society. It'll never end...... I'm so happy I retired and left that shit hole.
55 grand is really cheap these days. Should last her about a week.
Not a lawyer & not a cop. I was once in a auto accident where a car turned left in front of me & to avoid hitting that car, I instinctively turned left putting my vehicle in the line of on comming traffic where my car was hit in the front right side.
There was a witness that testified the car turned right in front of me, but the lawyer of that driver tried to say there was "contributory negligence" on my part because there was a cell phone in my car and I -- might -- have been on the phone, thus being partly responsible. There was absolutely no evidence of that. I remember nothing as I was knocked unconscious from the impact.
It was the bullshit lawyers do.
The witness stated the car turned right in front of me and that I had no chance of doing anything other then what I did besides turning right (and maybe hitting something else). Bad options all around. The witness stated, given there was a passenger in the front seat of the car I avoided, it's very likely, had I not turned like I did, the impact would have left a serious mark on the passenger.
Anyway, in this taser incident, I think the officers acted properly. To enhage with the wild bitch physically makes them susceptable to her gaining acces to their gun or their being bitten or such.
At the very LEAST shouldn't it be a wash under the "contributory negligence" scenario???
Not that I believe the police were negligent here. She should get nothing. But if the fricking court wants to show her sympathy, call it contributory negligence. I don't know why the court would want to show any sympathy (color? pregnant?), but hey, this is Chicago. Making a cash settlement, it looks like the court is financing lawyers who finance politicians.
Her actions are not that far removed from the alledged diaper-changing banger father who may have used the baby as a human shield.
There's a nice investigative report Jay Levine. What have they payouts been, what were the circumstances of the complaint, who are the lawyers and who are the judges and what are the political contributions and what have the ghetto-lotto winners done with the $$$$?
Paying her just encourages more of that kind of behaviour.
After giving her the ticket, why didn't the cops just walk away?
And you wonder why we dont do anything anymore?
This was poorly handled by the officer.
Ridiculous. Whatever happened to respect for law enforcement? And they wonder why people categorically hate the shitbirds on the South and West sides. It's not racism, it's ASSHOLE-ISM.
police have a rather different view of what is appropriate behaviour on their part then the courts and most of the rest of society do. that is bound to create these kind of situations from time to time when the expectations of most of society come into conflict with what police are actually doing.
I do not see this issue going away, nor do I have any really good ideas on how to deal with it. other departments have managed to resolve this issue for the most part without it negatively impacting actual police work, but it requires some active leadership from the top (both within and from outside police departments) to make it work, and that seems to be sadly lacking in Chicago.
I hate to see low lifes get a big payout, and while likely the cop who used the stun gun might well have been within the law, it might also have been avoidable.
From the outside looking in it appears like it was retaliation for tearing up a parking ticket, something that is probably not even illegal. It might not be that simple, but a jury might well see it that way.
not a cop
I remember this story well. Absolutely drives me f'ing nuts to see that that mutt got one dime and that the City gave it to her, rather than fight to the death. Disgusted! I'm retired, live in the country, out of state and yet I still read this blog and also the main stream media. Don't get me wrong; I think SCC is great. It's just that my blood pressure has to go through the roof when I read this shit. Maybe it's time to drop all news media, put my head in the sand, and live blissfully ignorant. Keep safe.
CPD doesn't use "stun guns".
C'MON MAN everyone knows it's funny to watch people do the chicken when tazed what's the big deal or crime in that?
Someone wrote that by the city cutting a check it clears the officers from paying anything. This is true, but we as taxpayers are still footing the bill for these bs lawsuits. I have tasered assailants that were spitting, kicking and thrashing in the rear of a squad and he sued and got a settlement. It does matter that this money is paid out.
(1) The money ain't coming
out of Rahm's pocket or
personal accounts.
(2) There's always more
where that came from.
(3) Ya gotta make them think
the city is on their
side to keep them voting
the "right" way come
election time.
(4) The city lottery is a
nice supplement to the
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I'm so sick of these ghetto trash people getting payouts for acting like shitheads.
Pretty soon the black youth wilding mobs will be lawyering up and getting paid because police violated their "civil rights"
4/06/2013 05:02:00 AM
everybody's talking about:
racism, ghettoism, thugism, muggism, dime-bagism, gang-tagism
dis-ism, dat-ism, pack of hoodratsism
all i am saying, is give me my chance
all i am saying, is give me my chance
(c'mon peeps)
everybody's talking about:
phony preachers, underachievers, ghetto scammers, armed with hammers,
bangers boppin', eyes a poppin', my my, die die
all i am saying, is give me my chance
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(let me tell you how)
everybody's talking about:
devolution, no solution, degradation, instigation, high taxation, damned inflation, confrontations, fractured nations, congratulations
all i am saying, is give me my chance
all i am saying, is give me my chance
everybody's talking about:
phleger beggar, meeks the nagger, bill and lisa, mike da greasa, rahm and jersey, and Paul Kersey,
quinn and toni, all so phony, fuck you, pay me, where's dem daley's?
all i am saying, is give me my chance
all i am saying, is give me my chance
(repeat until time runs out)
Chalkie
Lawyer gets 33% right?
She's left with $34K right?
Check with this sow in a year and ask her how much she put in her children's "education fund."
*Two laugh tracks playing at the same time*
A fully loaded but beat Escalade will be parked in front (with a handicap parking permit) sitting on cinder-blocks a few days out of each week because the same set of cousins from across the back way keep stealing the $15k rims off it and putting them on their beat like a mofo Olds Aurora...
Just wait and see...
Unreal. City lawyers have no balls.
time to move from the city and the state fuck chicago
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Off topic, but maybe a future lottery player...Sun-Times.com had a story about the drunk ASA from last fall. Her and her boyfriend were aquitted on all charges. Just another head-scratcher of a story.
4/06/2013 01:16:00 AM
the business owner needs to sue civilly,,,,since the burder of proof is less than required to convince a jagoff clout connected former ASA Judge that the bitch should be found guilty, ya know due to video and multiple eyewitnesses and proven Alderqueer witness tampering in 44th ward.
its disgusting the way the city just keeps shelling out money to these pieces of garbage
The more I hear our Supreme Wizzard, McWhatdafuck talk, the more I think he and our Supreme Asshole VP are somehow related....there fucking twins...
She now has too much money to be
on ANY GUBMENT ASSISTANCE. I hope her numerous case workers hear about this settlement and throw her ass off the dole.
Wait! I was on scene and read with the kids after the assailant mother was hauled away. Hell, we even bought candy and water for the kids inside Walgreens!
So does this mean she can pay me back the $2.75 I spent on her children? Or my time spent reading and laughing with them until grandma picked them up?
Sheesh!
Anonymous said...
It sure beats going to trial and possibly losing. Everyone fails to realize that when the city settles no copper has to pay a dime. Yeah it sucks but all the coppers involved didn't have to pay. So consider it a win
4/06/2013 12:15:00 AM
It's no win over the years when people remember "victims" crying about brutality on the news and the end result being a settlement. No one will remember beefs being exposed for being unfounded. This undermines the legitimacy of justified beefs and gives more power to unjustified beefs.
I had a lawsuit which involved one of our own: CPD Officer Johnny Jenkins. He is off on disability and has sued the police three times. Twice CPD and once out in the burbs. Real class act this guy. I can talk about because it's all public record, trial and everything. Sued me and my partner for violation of his civil rights. Our attorneys asked what we wanted to do and I was pretty insistent they fought and not pay this POS. Well it dragged on for over three years and it was a pain but we beat it hands down. Our attorney said his lawyer probably was going to hand the city a bill for at least $250K but both JJ and his attorney got zippo. He had 5 boxes of paperwork on the desk during the trial. At the end the city's attorneys offered him $1 (just to pay his legal bills) but he refused it so he got nothing. My ribs hurt for three days afterwards from my laughter. It was great. I got 4 days of OT plus all the times I got called down to his attorney's office. I made close to 80 hours OT getting sued. I am LMAO right now again thinking about it. Thanks Jenkins. Again, all public record.
It sure beats going to trial and possibly losing. Everyone fails to realize that when the city settles no copper has to pay a dime. Yeah it sucks but all the coppers involved didn't have to pay. So consider it a win
You are correct. But wouldn't it be nice if there was a system in place that does not allow these lieing fools to file these bs lawsuits in the first place.
Being loud and boisterous, calling the police names and waving your arms just are not sufficient to stun someone or to pepper spray someone ot to whack them on the head with your baton. Sorry, but that is how is is.You wont get any sympathy with a jury. And,m you will have to define " acting like a complete asshole". I did not see that in the criminal code.
I'm retired after 26 years. I loved the job, most of the time. Now I can't wait to move out of this fucking city. My house is up for sale and I'm out. This cow gets my tax dollars? She gets paid, 55 million for Maggie park, a million for cease fire, untold other amounts wasted on other shit and the city wants to take my COLA away?
Another thing, I keep hearing "it costs too much to go to trial". Don't the city lawyers get paid no matter what they're doing? Are they paid by the trial. Say what you want aboutWeis, and I was not a fan but he made them fight this shit.
Fuck you Chicago, I'm out.
Shortly after Rodney King, a bunch of us responded to a disturbance call after the first lone officer called for help. Bunch of people in the apartment, all trying their hardest to goad us into doing Something, Anything--then we saw a guy toward the rear with a video camera.
All admitted they were trying to get us doing something 'inappropriate' on film so they could sue and get a settlement.
Needless to say, videotape went down sewer. All arrested as I recall.
Wouldn't put it past people still doing the same thing today. Beware.
So that makes her income for the year $55,000. Courtesy of the taxpayers.
We're damned if we do, damned if we don't.
I'm getting tired of living in the world of the damned.
Damn, damn tired.
Ok, this is the 1,000,000,001th reason not to do ANYTHING except the bare minimum.
Unless I saw that mutt cut off a paraplegic trying to park in that handicapped spot, I'd have just rolled on by.
So sorry the copper(s) had to suffer the humiliation of this whole stupid incident.
Don't hate the players ,hate the game,the city is stupid enough to pay,or is it cheaper than fighting,it's all about the money to the ghetto victim and the city! Even the police want to get paid!
This is why I left cook county for will county
Anonymous said...
CPD doesn't use "stun guns".
4/06/2013 10:15:00 AM
No, we use tasers that have a stun gun function. Did you not pay attention in certification class?
Anonymous said...
After giving her the ticket, why didn't the cops just walk away?
4/06/2013 08:32:00 AM
Exactly and leave her with 'Have a nice day."
best way to limit the BS lawsuits = make them report the money as income and suspend their fucking link/snap/wic/tanf/ebt/etc.
this bitch made $55k tax free in for 2013. That's probably more than most of us make after they get done trimming taxes off of our checks (unless you're doing VRI of course).
I'm sure 95% of these fucks wouldn't sue the city if winning a settlement meant that your welfare got suspended and you had to re-apply for it all.
This was poorly handled by the officer.
4/06/2013 09:19:00 AM
Not so.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Off topic, but maybe a future lottery player...Sun-Times.com had a story about the drunk ASA from last fall. Her and her boyfriend were aquitted on all charges. Just another head-scratcher of a story.
4/06/2013 01:16:00 AM
the business owner needs to sue civilly,,,,since the burder of proof is less than required to convince a jagoff clout connected former ASA Judge that the bitch should be found guilty, ya know due to video and multiple eyewitnesses and proven Alderqueer witness tampering in 44th ward.
4/06/2013 12:48:00 PM
Your homophobia is showing. I doubt Cozzi appreciates your assessment of the guy who gave him a job when he got out. Why don't you drop by later today and ask him?
Anonymous said...
Lawyer gets 33% right?
Actually, the attorney gets more then one-third. They take one third for their fee, they are still entitled to actual costs which could amount to another third.
Anonymous said...
After giving her the ticket, why didn't the cops just walk away?
4/06/2013 08:32:00 AM
That is correct. Write the ticket and walk away. Even if the ahole throws it on the ground it is still issued. The other question is what happens once the ticket is issued. Actually, not much. The officer is lucky this case did not go to trial. " Acting like an asshole" is not a criminal charge that I have ever heard of.
"The city of Chicago has agreed to pay $55,000 to a South Side mom who was Tasered by a cop when she was eight months pregnant."
Uh, uh, I needs $55,000 right quick to start a music video company.
>pop< of money disappearing into thin air
Didn't they find Rodney King dead in a big swimming pool with the date of the settlement set in tile in the wall of the pool?
>ka-ching<
...and probably now no one will buy the house because of stuff like that...
"A parallel statement aptly describes Tiffany Rent's entitlement-producing vagina. Every "pull of the handle" comes up..."
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4/06/2013 12:49:00 AM
Since we live in a "food desert," you don't see three apples or oranges lined up, but three green-pickles-in-plastic-bags, three Flamin' Hots, or three purple dranks.
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"The Modern Chicago Policing equivalent of the cold, soggy hotdog on a plain bun with no trimmings...and a glass of warm water to wash it down with."
4/06/2013 01:29:00 AM
You can have a shot of ketchup on that.
>gah<
4/07/2013 02:29:00 AM
I got nothing against GLBT's. Worked for and with a few over the years.
Tunney is an opportunistic whore that is using his Gay Flag to shut out all other opponents in this ward though. Can't run against him if you ain't in the GLBT club.
Look at the crap he is trying with the Cubs and Ricketts.
Remember you give them money. Walk away and tell the fat pig to get a job, its more satisfying, and her car will get booted also.
I would write her a dozen tix and let her rip them all up, who cares
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