[Mpls] Record settlement reached in brutality suit

[Terrell Brown]

Today's StarTribune

Record settlement reached in brutality suit 
Howie Padilla, Rochelle Olson and David Chanen,  Star Tribune 
June 24, 2004 SUIT0624 
Minneapolis will pay nearly $1 million to a man who lost his colon and
part of his small intestine after what he claims was a beating
administered by police responding to a domestic dispute at his south
Minneapolis home.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/467/4844214.html


I'm going to ask again.  Why, if the behavior of the police officers was
so bad that the city is paying out a $995,000 settlement, are the 2
police officers involved still employed as police officers by the City
of Minneapolis.

And why wasn't an internal investigation opened?

If the city is going to approve the settlement shouldn't the Council
motion be to pay the settlement AND terminate the employment of the
officers involved?

Or am I to believe that the city threshold for paying settlements is so
low that they will pay without any evidence?  Either the settlement
should not have been paid or the officers should be fired.  Haven't we
already paid out enough due to the behavior of rouge cops?

The quote from Mayor RT Rybak is a real gem, "But it does not
necessarily say anything about guilt,".  So, we just payout the money?
Can't the Mayor come up with a better comment than that?



Terrell Brown
Loring Park