And one more post on intolerable trauma. Remember the white police officer in Chicago who showed up at the apartment of a mentally ill black teenager? The policeman killed the teenager, killed a neighboring grandma, obviously claimed self-defense, it’s an old story we’ve all heard many times. But here is a curious new twist.
The policeman is suing the family of the dead teen for $10,000,000 claiming that he was hugely traumatized by the event. The event being him shooting the teenager and the grandma while being paid to do his job of policing.
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It could less that he’s actually traumatized and more that he’s trying to make a statement. http://blog.simplejustice.us/2016/02/07/legriers-killer-tries-tactical-chutzpah/
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Of course, he’s not traumatized. And neither is the Italian with the dirty plates or the spoiled brats at Yale. It’s all just a pose.
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It feels like a <a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation’>SLAPP suit.
It’s very interesting to see when people affect this pose of fragility and who gets to do this. It’s not socially acceptable to do an end zone dance over his victims’ graves anymore, so he goes with a lawsuit instead.
He could feel anger that they even attempted to get justice for their dead loved ones. I’ve encountered these kinds of people before; albeit on a much smaller scale. They rage and rage when they’d have been better served to walk away and be quiet.
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Everybody gets to do this but not everybody wants to. Those who have experienced actual trauma will not want to awaken any echoes of it by enacting a spectacle of fake trauma.
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Do you remember that famous image during the Occupy Wall Street idiocy when students who were “occupying” the UC Davis campus were pepper-sprayed by a university police officer?
After everything was finally settled, each of the sprayed students received $30,000 and other monetary benefits from the university, and the cop who did the spraying received $38,000 in compensation pay for his psychological pain and suffering.
Further proof, as if any were needed, that the world is slowly going nuts.
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I had no idea, actually. But yes, this is out of this world deranged.
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I actually like Occupy but, uh, I thought the point of sitting in was that you took the risks that came with it — ? ? ? I am not condoning police brutality and so on, but really … !
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But did you see that the policeman was paid MORE for the trauma of peeper-spraying the protesters? That’s the insane part. He’s a policeman, he’s doing his job that involves far greater risks. What next, fire fighters will sue burn victims for forcing them to do their job?
Can I sue students for making me grade their papers? Cause that can be very traumatic.
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Yes — right. !
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There’s a Legal Zoom form for that.
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Actually, YES. Unscrupulous lawyers will take any case they think there’s a chance to make money on, and judges have let some idiotic cases into the courtroom. If you’re suing for an amount below a threshold that varies from state to state, the defendants may not even be entitled to a trial by jury, and the trial judge can make the final ruling.
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Hmm. . .Looks like I’ve lived my life in vain when I could have been suing left and right this entire time. 🙂
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So the US hasn’t much difference betwen civil and criminal law?
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No, there’s a huge difference. Sometimes, people are acquitted in criminal court but then found guilty of the same crime in civil court.
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The reason I mentioned that was that it was implied by a poster that in a civil court it was possible to invoke the right to trial by jury. I’d have thought that was irrelevant in civil cases. But then, I am no expert in the law.
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There are many (not all) civil cases in America where the defendant has the right to a trial by jury.
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You just did. Remember that the next time you complain about apathetic young people who don’t do old fashioned demonstrations and smug on about how college is the new high school.
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… Shakti, I am more like thinking of the 43 of Ayozinapa.
I think you are confusing me with someone else. Here, many people come to college with more like a 5th grade education, not a middle school one, and many of them are adults who work long hours in dangerous jobs. And what I wish they would do is register to vote, not do what you call “old-fashioned protests.”
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Also — I just get surprised that people get surprised at what happens, and while I am glad the students got a payout, I would rather have seen some policy changes. Big ones.
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