Progressives determining what to do with the people’s money without even a court being involved.
Via NY Post:
Anger mounted Tuesday over the city’s decision to pay Eric Garner’s kin $5.9 million before relatives even filed suit over his chokehold death while being busted for selling loose cigarettes on Staten Island last summer.
“It’s an unpopular opinion here; having to pay out all that money isn’t good,” Bea Arroyo, 42, said at a bus stop across Bay Street from where he died.
“The city is paying that $5.9 million out, but it’s not coming outta their pocket — it’s coming out of our taxes.”
Eric Visicoso, 49, who lives in Tompkinsville, where the tragedy took place, said Garner’s racially charged death came “not because of his skin color, but because he was breaking the law.
“Eric Garner isn’t a martyr.”