$16 Million
- Aldermen gave the go-ahead Monday for a $16 million payment to the family of a woman fatally shot by a police officer who was firing at a teenager carrying a baseball bat, after the city’s top attorney said the “tragedy” of her death could have prompted a jury to award even more money if the case went to trial.
Although the vast majority of the blame lays with the criminal who threatened responding officers with a baseball bat and the family who neglected and enabled him for years, he's dead, and the City has deep pockets. An innocent woman paid an incalculable price.
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posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
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I love this one. Shitheads father hides in the closet cause he believes his son is going to kill him with a baseball bat. Then he calls this poor woman to do his dirty work and she winds up getting shot. How about a protest over the lame ads father.
Protest planned for the marathon. Actual sit down one to prevent the participants from running. Gimme that overtime.
Sorry she's dead but that's too much money. Someone had to say it.
This is ridiculous no one has a 16 million life insurance policy.
2018 LEADING CPD DISTRICTS FOR MURDER (through Sunday, Sept. 16th).
011.....55
005.....39
007.....35
015.....35
006.....32
002.....23
003.....23
009.....23
004.....21
010.....21
008.....20
025.....18
011 leads all districts in ALL four categories of Part I VIOLENT crimes and shooting incidents. 011 is also the only district in the city where total VIOLENT crimes surpass PROPERTY crimes.
SOURCE: CPD
Can someone please explain how they determined the amount !
The innocent woman should have ducked.
She wouldn't have made that money in 15 lifetimes.
Taxpayers..... Time to take back your government.
Great now everyone in the ghetto will be launching their strollers in front of squad cars again!
Why don't they appeal these cases all the way to Supreme Court will take a decade or more to get through the system?
Carrying a bat? No media bias here.
Family gonna live the high life. But will they still stay in Chicago ?
Probably
SCC I think the important thing to look at is who the law firm is representing the family and just how much money they received for services??? Better yet, 16 million??? Does this sound a little over the top for these circumstances??? Wonder if the families awarded "HUGE!!!" numbers go the way of most lottery winners & are broke in a few years??? The politicians have allowed Chicago to become a war zone! Cops are penalized even when they do the right thing, usually when some "SHITHEAD" was doing the wrong things!
What does a US G.I.'s family get when they are killed in the line of duty? A flag that covered the casket folded and presented? Then some jerks decide to kneel when that flag is flown and the anthem is sung!!! America with liberty and justice for just who???
Thoughts and prayers for this women's family, this was truly a tragedy.
The Chicago Aldermen made more ghetto lottery payouts to people (and folks) than Linda Kollmeyer did on WGN.
Momma must have had a well paying job to be worth this much.
" teenager carrying a baseball bat". sure, that's what was happening.
Blame everyone but the guy swinging the baseball bat.
$16 million and not one person going “how can the city stop writing these big ass checks?”
Is this going to be the new norm now for the city to pay out ???
If this one was 16 Million, what will be the next one be.
Bill the criminal's family for all of it.
16 Million or 3 Mansions in The Goldcoast
"011 leads all districts in ALL four categories of Part I VIOLENT crimes and shooting incidents. 011 is also the only district in the city where total VIOLENT crimes surpass PROPERTY crimes."
Old Retired Guy:
What is left in Fillmore to steal? Nothing. So no property crime.
But, there are still people/folks in Fillmore, to be murdered, shot, raped.
Incalculable no longer. They have set the floor for all future incidents. City must be rolling in cash. 16 million without a trial. Who came up with the number?
The city has deep pockets...until it doesn't (relatively soon). Police and fire pensions will be the first to go.
16-million!! Thugs father should be responsible. Not taxpayers.
I wish these a-holes would stop phoning police when their brats get violent.
Ms. Jones' death was a terrible, awful accident. That said, the amount of the settlement is absurdly high. As just one example, for purposes of settling wrongful death claims made when a commercial airliner crashes, aviation insurers use $5 million as the value of one human life.
A higher value might be used where someone is a highly-paid individual whose future earnings are lost to the family, or a young standout with a particularly bright future, etc. But for the "average" individual, it's typically a $5 million price tag. Which, coincidentally, is exactly how many tax dollars Rahm gave Laquan McDonald's family to buy their silence.
So why is Corporation Counsel tossing more than three times that amount at Ms. Jones' family?
Too much compensation.
Just sayin.
I'm so glad my enormous tax burden is paying baby-mommas and baby-daddies who raise their children to assault police officers with bats.
I gotta get out of this city.
I agree too much money,maybe 5 mil.
Ms. Jones' death was a terrible, awful accident. That said, the amount of the settlement is absurdly high. As just one example, for purposes of settling wrongful death claims made when a commercial airliner crashes, aviation insurers use $5 million as the value of one human life.
A higher value might be used where someone is a highly-paid individual whose future earnings are lost to the family, or a young standout with a particularly bright future, etc. But for the "average" individual, it's typically a $5 million price tag. Which, coincidentally, is exactly how many tax dollars Rahm gave Laquan McDonald's family to buy their silence.
So why is Corporation Counsel tossing more than three times that amount at Ms. Jones' family
Simple. They were afraid that with all the publicity and her being a person only opening the door and not being involved in the physical altercation, the jury might award more than 15 million. It’s all about money, always is
Half goes to the Attorney, to wit; drops 10-15% to the campaigns associated with The Greater Chicago-Cook Co PAC Depository.
The wheels of progressivism turn round n’round...
What do you think Chicago Settlemints Inc. will be like after ‘Bats PrickWrinkle gets elected by the low info’s and the Libturds?
Daley 3.0 doesn’t look too bad now.
Mmm-mm-mmm.
Stay out of Jhetto Affairs or continue or prepare to work 3 min. wage jobs in the COPA-altered afterlife.
Isn’t the payment on a wrongful death calculated by future income generated as well as dependents?
Ms. Jones' death was a terrible, awful accident. That said, the amount of the settlement is absurdly high. As just one example, for purposes of settling wrongful death claims made when a commercial airliner crashes, aviation insurers use $5 million as the value of one human life.
A higher value might be used where someone is a highly-paid individual whose future earnings are lost to the family, or a young standout with a particularly bright future, etc. But for the "average" individual, it's typically a $5 million price tag. Which, coincidentally, is exactly how many tax dollars Rahm gave Laquan McDonald's family to buy their silence.
So why is Corporation Counsel tossing more than three times that amount at Ms. Jones' family?
9/19/2018 11:54:00 AM
Plaintiffs would not budge below 16 mil, and the city did not think it would be worth it to spend years in litigation. Something like this could cost millions (possibly 8 figures) in litigation, and millions in a judgment. Judge at the mercy of voters is not going to go lite with the money, and unless the jury is made up of the Jefferson Park/Mount Greenwood residents, neither will a jury.
How much would YOU sue for if your son or daughter died like this? Don't act like you would not go all the way yourself. Spare everyone the self righteous fake outrage over the 16 mil.
""""How much would YOU sue for if your son or daughter died like this? Don't act like you would not go all the way yourself. Spare everyone the self righteous fake outrage over the 16 mil. """"
Hey stupid have your kid die in a car crash or airplane crash and see how they get the calculator out and figure on how much to pay you. Lets see how much was the kids family worth + how much could he figure on making in his life + how long was he screaming in agony before the plane crashed + how much was the funeral = 1.2 million $$.
So spare me your stupid righteous shit. If thats how they figure the worth of my kid then thats how they should figure the worth of some old Lady who stuck her nose in other peoples business and was accidentally killed because some lunatic kid was going to kill a cop.
Aldercreature Ed Burke says the original demand from Jones’ family was $60 million. City lawyers negotiated it down to $16. “She was regrettably in the wrong place at the wrong time,” says Ald Ed Burke. “There really was no defense city could invoke.” $60 million? Are you kidding me?
16 million and the lawyer gets 1/3rd of the award. Is the law firm “ connected” to shitty hall ?
Just axin
The lawyer was Larry R. Rogers, Jr. He's a Trial Attorney for Power Rogers & Smith L.L.P. and a Cook County Commissioner too. I'm sure the law firm is connected to "Shitty Hall" and they'll get a 1/3 of that 16 million. Not a bad payday.
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