Posted on 04/23/2013 2:28:16 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
LOS ANGELES (AP) The city of Los Angeles reached a $4.2 million settlement on injury claims by two women who were injured when police mistakenly opened fire on them during the manhunt for disgruntled ex-cop Christopher Dorner, an official said Tuesday.
City Attorney Carmen Trutanich announced the sum to KNBC-TV Los Angeles, and an attorney representing the women confirmed the amount to The Associated Press.
The settlement must still be approved by the Los Angeles City Council.
Margie Carranza and her 71-year-old mother, Emma Hernandez, were delivering papers around 5 a.m. on Feb. 7 when LAPD officers blasted at least 100 rounds at their pickup.
Hernandez was shot in the back and Carranza had minor injuries.
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I read elsewhere the city was also going to give them a new truck. But they declined. They woulda had to pay the taxes on the truck.
Send the bill to CalPERS to take out of the police officers’ retirement funds.
They can ditch the paper route now.
Good, now try the “cops” for attempted murder
Well, they wont have to deliver newspapers anymore.
I would drive around with a sign, “Beware of the Police”.
Beat me.
Maybe they can afford to buy a nice home now.
Or move out of LALA land and buy LOTS of nice homes.
It would have been fair for the city (i.e., the taxpayers) to pay all of their medical bills and buy them a new truck, including the sales tax, property tax, insurance, and registration fees. However, that’s it. Anything more than that is a shakedown—paid for, of course, by those of us who earn our own way and pay an extortionate amount of taxes to fund such windfalls.
Now, if the LAPD would just fire the trigger-happy, color blind morons who shot up the truck...
Nope. They’re entitled to punitive damages - and the trigger fingers of the idiots that fired on them.
Muy Policías estúpidos = Very Stupid Policemen
And they are very poor shots
That's the whole problem. The ones who are the responsible parties in these events are never held to account, it's always the taxpayers.
These perps need to be hit where it hurts, and these ladies to deserve a little "extra" beside medical and a new truck, imo.
Shoot first, ID later.
Two short, old, Latina females <> One tall young black male.
Due process be damned.
Then, there's the HONDA RIDGELINE the LAPD rammed in Torrance. The windshield of this truck was riddled with bullets as well:
This is what Dorner drove.. A NISSAN TITAN:
Brush up on your vehicle ID skills, ladies of the LAPD!!!
Jackpot!
Oh yeah:
Blue Toyota Tacoma <> Black Nissan Frontier
The crack LAPD fired over 100 rounds at them.
100!
Thank God they missed .
I could give a gun to someone with Parkinson’s, that has ever held a gun before, and make them a better shot in one afternoon.
Are any of the newly wealthy Americans?
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