[BrooklynGOP]

Sharpton said he still fears large crowds as a result of the stabbing

Hah!

[MEG33]

I hope the DA(?) that has never received a dime from the lawsuit he won against Sharpton sees a bit of this money.

[Argus]

Presumably Sharpton now has the cash to pay Steve Pagones.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Al Sharpton: "I think that we must do whatever we can to regulate how guns are used. I've been a victim of, of a stabbing." (3 May 2003, demoRAT debate)

[El Gato]

The city's law department on Monday defended the NYPD's actions, but said it agreed to the settlement because the city could not predict how a jury might rule.

I'm pretty sure that it's well established law, right up to the Suprme Court, that the police have no obligation to protect any individual.

I suppose there might have been some traction in a theory that if they tried to protect someone, and botched it, then they could be held liable. Alternately, and because of what Sharpton is this is IMHO more likely, he could allege dicrimination on the basis of race, argueing that they didn't protect him as well as they should have because he's black..he his you know. :)However that would then become a federal civil rights case, not an "ordinary" civil suit.

[Bubba_Leroy]

So I wonder how much of that Sharpton is going to pay to his victims at Freddy's Fashion Mart?

[Rome2000]

I wonder how much the NYPD owes the 15,000 New Yorkers who have been murdered since 1991.

[philetus]

What a joke. Why isn't this posted to humor?

[BrookdalePark]

P.S. The day of the settlement, Dec. 8, is the eighth anniversary of the fatal fire at Freddy's store in Harlem. I will not repeat any of the dastardly claims that Mr. Sharpton's words may have inflamed the atmosphere and perhaps incited whoever set the fire.

[GrandMoM]

one-inch scar on his chest. ....what a wimp!

[arasina]

Whatcha wanna bet Sharpton got $200K for his Saturday Night Live appearance? :o)

[yoe]

What was the bill to New York City for the Tawana Brawley debacle? Must have cost the city thousands of taxpayer dollars.....Al - you are a #1 jerk! Probably stabbed yourself..........

[At _War_With_Liberals]

"The settlement, which also covers the Democratic presidential candidate's $7,447.76 hospital bill"

Maybe now he will pay that bill, although it's probably been written off.

[yonif]

Sharpton said he still fears large crowds as a result of the stabbing,

Didn't seem scared when he was on SNL....

[Clemenza]

Freeper Cacique was nearby when this happened.

Little background: Sharpton had a protest March through the blue collar white neighborhood where Yusef Hawkins was beater to death. Most of the counterprotesters told him to go him, although a few held watermelons and at least one had a confederate flag (the media had a field day).

[South40]

Sharpton sure seemed right at home on SNL with everyone laughing at him.

[kcvl]

"The Real Al Sharpton (By The Real Lenora Fulani)"

March 10, 2003

We'd sit in my offices - often with my political mentor Fred Newman, who funded some of Sharpton's activities in the early days - plotting, scheming, and laughing about the backwardness of the handkerchief-heads, the white liberals, the phony Black revolutionaries. I brought white people out to Bensonhurst to march with us after the murder of Yusuf Hawkins in 1989 and we’d joke about how crazy the Black nationalists acted in response. Sharpton and I became a team. I was the socialist, he was the preacher. The Black community was curious, but supportive. We were so different from all the other leadership.

Sharpton was so incorrigibly committed to promoting himself that on the day he was stabbed in Bensonhurst in 1991, he was already figuring out how to use his near-death experience to open the pearly gates of political acceptability while he still lay in his hospital bed. I know this because Newman and I were there - we'd been with him in the schoolyard staging area when Michael Riccardi thrust a knife into his chest; Newman took him to the hospital in his car because the ambulance was slow to arrive. Once he was out of danger, Sharpton regaled us with hilarious accounts of the solemn parade of Black officialdom that passed by his bedside. The Black hierarchs – from Mayor David Dinkins to Jesse Jackson himself – were eager to preside over his redemption. And Sharpton, for all his righteous fury, wanted to be redeemed. In retrospect, I realize this was the day that Sharpton decided to trade in his nascent independence to become a Democrat.


http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:YmdzRHGi2BcJ:www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp%3FID%3D822+Michael+Riccardi,+sharpton&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[OldFriend]

Paying Sharpton and denying the victims of the Staten Island Ferry crash.

How very Blooming-idiot.

[ppaul]

Pagones v. Maddux, Mason and Sharpton Tawana Brawley Grand Jury Report In November of 1987, a 15-year-old girl named Tawana Brawley was found in upstate New York, covered with feces and racial slurs written in charcoal. Brawley, who is black, claimed to have been abducted and raped by six white law enforcement officers. A decade later, the men who advised Brawley after the alleged incident -- Al Sharpton, Alton Maddox, and lawyer C. Vernon Mason -- are being sued by one of those six men: Steven Pagones, then a local prosecutor, now an assistant state attorney general. In a trial that began December 3, 1997 in a Duchess County, New York courtroom, Pagones sought damages for defamation that escalated during the course of the trial from $150 million to $395 million, but returned to $150 million during the eventual damages phase. Brawley, now 25 and called Maryam Muhammad, appeared after 10-year silence at a Brooklyn rally the night before her advisors' trial began to insist once more that her charges are true. Her case was ultimately thrown out in 1988 when a grand jury determined that her story was not credible. Justice S. Barrett Hickman of the New York State Supreme Court has allowed that report to be included as evidence in the current trial. On July 13, 1998, after a trial lasting almost eight months, a jury found the three advisors liable for defaming Pagones. Just over two weeks later, on July 29, the jury awarded Pagones $345,000 in damages, about two percent of the amount he originally sought. Sharpton was found liable for $65,000 of the total damages, Maddox for $95,000 and Mason for $185,000. Here is the full text of the 1988 grand jury report that cleared Pagones and the other alleged attackers of any wrongdoing. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE DISAPPEARANCE AND THE DISCOVERY OF TAWANA BRAWLEY THE ALLEGATIONS OF WHAT WAS DONE TO TAWANA BRAWLEY. THE EVIDENCE AS TO TAWANA BRAWLEY'S WHEREABOUTS THE EVIDENCE AS TO TAWANA BRAWLEY'S MEDICAL CONDITION THE EVIDENCE AS TO A POSSIBLE SEXUAL ASSAULT THE PSYCHIATRIC EVIDENCE THE EVIDENCE AS TO TAWANA BRAWLEY'S PHYSICAL APPEARANCE THE ALLEGATIONS AGAINST STEVEN PAGONES AND OTHERS CONCLUSIONS

[concerned about politics]

New York City has agreed to pay $200,000 in damages to Al Sharpton after he was stabbed nearly 13 years ago at a protest where he said police failed to protect him.

He started the chaos, and NY taxpayers foot the bill. Sounds like a democrat to me.