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Originally posted by bill718Oh, and that excuses it? If your bad record-keeping has the potential to kill people in the most abject of circumstances, you keep your records. How hard is that? Really? It's not like this is hard, unless you have a room-temperature IQ and racism coming out of your every pore, as, apparently, every single USAlien police-thug out there.
This is a noteworthy incident, but hardly a common one. It could have been nothing more than a record keeping error.
The post that was quoted here has been removedI neither condemn or condone this remark but do note that a healthy way to deal with life's tragedies is humor, and I would suspect that this would be a " not unusual" response.
I feel that a large compensation ( paid for by taxpayers) is warranted " but" $4.1000,000. seems excessive. I do add, good luck to him for getting it though.
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Originally posted by jimmacNo, it's an appropriate compensation. They left him for a week in solitary confinement without food or water. I know nothing more about the case than has been written here, but it could be warranted straightforwardly due to the psychological condition he was left in - he may not be able to work. Had that happened in Saddam Hussain's Iraq, to an Iraqi prisoner, it would have formed part of the US's justification for war. I find it difficult to believe it was a mistake and even if it was simply a mistake I find the penalties for the DEA officers ludicrously lenient.
I neither condemn or condone this remark but do note that a healthy way to deal with life's tragedies is humor, and I would suspect that this would be a " not unusual" response.
I feel that a large compensation ( paid for by taxpayers) is warranted " but" $4.1000,000. seems excessive. I do add, good luck to him for getting it though.
Originally posted by DeepThoughtNo, it's an appropriate compensation.
No, it's an appropriate compensation. They left him for a week in solitary confinement without food or water. I know nothing more about the case than has been written here, but it could be warranted straightforwardly due to the psychological condition he was left in - he may not be able to work. Had that happened in Saddam Hussain's Iraq, to an Iraqi ...[text shortened]... d even if it was simply a mistake I find the penalties for the DEA officers ludicrously lenient.
How many people make $4.1 million in a lifetime?
I find the penalties for the DEA officers ludicrously lenient.
The fines didn't punish the alleged bad cops at all. It punished the taxpayers, who weren't involved in the incident.
Originally posted by normbenignWould it have made more sense to award the victim a more reasonable amount to be paid by the officers who wronged him?
[b]No, it's an appropriate compensation.
How many people make $4.1 million in a lifetime?
I find the penalties for the DEA officers ludicrously lenient.
The fines didn't punish the alleged bad cops at all. It punished the taxpayers, who weren't involved in the incident.[/b]