Who Says Crime Doesn't Pay?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56381722
...why don't they wait for the outcome of the "trial"?

[TonyV]

Who said he committed a crime? The must be some monitory value on someone being killed needlessly?

[Mamyalynne]

"The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously to approve the pre-trial $27m settlement".

Perhaps by doing so they reduce the chance of paying more after the trial.

I don't know how it works.

[ToraToraTora]

he's a career criminal lowlife, the pregnant woman he knifed must be delighted. Still the FOCS are happy eh?

[Deskdiary]

That's got to be a joke right?

It was terrible way the man died, but I'm a bit tired about it turning into a race issue; the only person in the world who knows whether it was a race issue is Chauvin, and he's hardly likely to admit it.

Another view, of course, is that Chauvin was restraining a known violent criminal.

The thing that irritates the bejesus the most out of me though is the way Floyd has been pretty much deified; for Christs sake, did anybody see the funeral he had - there was a painting of him with angel wings. Even the most achingly right-on (and I know there's a few on AB) must accept he was no angel.

He absolutely didn't deserve to die the way he did, but to elevate him to a demi-god is just completely bananas.

[ToraToraTora]

interesting that they choose now, obviously virtue signalling pre trail, it's not even clear a crime has been committed.

[ToraToraTora]

DD if only, should please FOCS.

[TonyV]

Deskdiary, there are other ways of restraining someone if you have four officers available.

[tiggerblue10]

FOCS?

[Deskdiary]

TTT - you should know better than that; we're not allowed to use the phrase 'virtue signalling' anymore, because it upsets the virtue signallers.

[Deskdiary]

Which is why I said it was a terrible way to die TonyV.

[Everhelpful]

B.A.to Deskdiary.

[TonyV]

Yes Dd I agree with you, no matter what his criminal past was.

[tiggerblue10]

Maybe damage limitation in case Chauvin gets manslaughter or less, rather than murder.

[Sqad]

$27million..........seems reasonable to me as loss of earnings from crime, had he lived.

[Mamyalynne]

TTT he is not benefitting from tis - he's dead.

This is not being awarded because of anything he did before he was killed.

[ToraToraTora]

perhaps, sqad but no crime has been committed.

[Atheist]

I think that Mr Floyd wouldn't have thought that crime paid. Would you be happy to die without trial?

[ToraToraTora]

mamy: "his is not being awarded because of anything he did before he was killed. " - but why is it being awarded? why not wait for the outcome of the "trial" ? ...unless..?

[TonyV]

Sqad i know you want now the answer, neither do I, but did crime rate lower significantly after his demise?

[douglas9401]

I'll have a go with Friends Of Criminal Scum.