Edit: A Colorado sheriff’s office has drawn outrage after it awarded a Purple Heart to a deputy involved in a fatal shooting who murdered a middle-schooler for getting in the wrong car.Ģnd Edit: dunno if CO cops are worse than average, but they're sure trying to stay competitive. The first cop to think of shooting is awarded a citation by the mayor. Three other cops were injured from stone fragments, leading to another 15 cops being wounded from sympathetic shooting crossfire. One cop suddenly gets a great idea and shoots the stone carvings, in a cop-level attempt to make the problem go away. I love having you here, I just found it bizarre that it seemed like the majority of tourists on the ferry were from Italy specifically.Įach time a gun is fired, it is considered a failure of de-escalation methodsĪmerican cops scratching their head in confusion, furrowing their brows trying to comprehend some ancient cryptic stone carvings. I’d be afraid of getting shot, unlikely or not, and choose elsewhere.Īlso if any Italians want to jump in and clarify if there’s some national or regional break going on (a lot of the accents and dialects I heard sounded like they were from southern Italy), please do. Yes NYC is comparatively safe despite what the MAGA-types think, but if I were from another country and seeing this stuff on the news constantly, I wouldn’t come. My first thought was: what the hell is going on in Italy right now that the whole country seems to be on vacation? And then my next thought was: And why the fuck would the choose here (the US)? I speak/understand some Italian because my mom was born there, and they were definitely Italian and definitely tourists (aka not “Italian Americans.”) SO many of the tourists were here on vacation from Italy. So I live in NY and decided to go to Liberty Island yesterday because even though I’ve lived here my whole life, I’ve never bothered to go and see the statue up close. For a lot of that treatment, the benefits diminish as time passes and waiting three years for settlement money to pay for that treatment could have drastically harmed those victims. Plus, many victims may have needed additional procedures or rehabilitation that insurance could have deemed unnecessary despite the benefits they could have provided to victims' quality of life. While $100k per person seems like a lot, that amount wouldn't even put a dent in the medical debt for many of the victims if they were uninsured or under-insured and if their injuries required multiple surgeries or extensive hospital stays.įor reference, my girlfriend, who was uninsured at the time, had a single surgery a couple years ago to have her tricuspid valve replaced after a month in the ICU and that bill amounted to roughly $500k and didn't include any follow-up rehabilitation. So, only $480m–$600m actually went to victims and their families, which amounts to ~$100k–$135k per person. From some cursory Googling, I found that anywhere from 25–40% of class-action settlements go to attorneys. The settlement went to 4,400 relatives and victims of the shooting. The $800m settlement allowed MGM to admit no wrongdoing or liability and MGM was only responsible for paying $49m of the settlement, the other $751m was paid by its insurance. The Vegas shooting happened in 2017, but MGM, who owns Mandalay Bay, didn't agree to a settlement for victims of the shooting until late 2020.
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