Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/18/undercover-cop-beaten-by-colleagues-during-protest-wins-23-5m-payout.html
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ACAB includes this dude.
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Right- where’s everybody else’s $23.5M?
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Perverse, indeed! I guess this is one twisted way to plan for retirement…
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Need that confused button meme to cover the cops’ internal investigation results with “admit guilt” vs “pay workman’s comp claim” or something.
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Yeah, of course, of all the heinous attacks by cops on bystanders during anti-police brutality protests, it’s the cop that gets the huge payout. Regular people don’t get those kinds of settlements even when the cops murder someone in cold blood.
Oh, and it’s not that his payout is $23.5 million - he already had a separate lawsuit against the city that netted him $5 million, and this was just one lawsuit against one of the three cops, who didn’t bother responding - he’s still got the other two lawsuits pending. (But I suppose it also means that he’s not going to get twenty million dollars from this guy.)
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So they paid 23.5M of taxpayer money for the right to beat a black cop, retire him, and make the department slightly whiter.
In Missouri, that’s known as a “win/win”.
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Yeah, in some ways these lawsuits remind me of the cops who file disability claims because shooting and killing unarmed people (or allowing others to be killed without intervening) gave them PTSD. It’s one of the many ways that cops have been defunding the communities where they used to work. 
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He’ll get a pay out.
We’ll foot the bill.
And nothing will change.
Unless cops start 1) going to jail or 2) pay out of their own pockets, there are no real consequences.
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My two-point plan to stop this from happening ever again:
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Implement a National Database of LEOs and require all Police Departments to background check all applicants. Record all investigations/complaints and the result(s). If the cop resigns prior to the completion of investigation, that fact is recorded also.
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Any successful lawsuit is paid from the police retirement fund
Number 1 will prevent cops from job-hopping away from consequences. Number 2 will instantly stop all bad behavior†, because the “good” cops will self-police their own at the risk of losing their pensions.
†Yes, I know it is magic thinking on my part 
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