Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:00 PM PDT
The city of Baltimore has reportedly agreed to pay the family of
Freddie Gray—whose controversial death while in police custody sent the
city into chaos earlier this year—$6.4 million to settle a lawsuit the
family filed against the city and its police department. The payout is
one of the largest settlements for a police misconduct lawsuit in the
city's history and the figure is consistent with the recent spike in the
amount of money these types of lawsuits cost taxpayers. Luckily for
police officers, taxpayers are footing the bill—because if cops had to
pay the tab for these settlements out of pocket it would cost many of
them thousands of dollars.
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