$5 million Alton Sterling settlement vote off for now - Chauna wants meetings

They have withdrawn the Oct. 16 revote for now. It seems they found out it wasn't going to pass. So Chauna is going to hold "meetings" to convince everyone we should give $5 million of our tax dollars to the Sterling family.

She is really working hard on their behalf. I wish our City Council could work half this hard on crime, drainage, blight and other issues.

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The proposed $5 million settlement in the civil suit filed on behalf of Alton Sterling's five children is off the table for now, but one member of the East Baton Rouge Metro Council said she plans to reintroduce it for consideration at the end of October.

The Metro Council voted along split lines at its Sept. 9 meeting to reject the settlement, but a technical glitch sent a single public comment on the measure, submitted via email, to a city-parish spam folder — a mishap that the Parish Attorney's Office said meant the measure would have to be reheard in full.

That advice was lifted, however, after the author of the misdirected public comment, Phillip Lillard, informed the council that he was retroactively withdrawing his emailed statement.

But Councilwoman Chauna Banks sad she plans to introduce the measure once again for a hearing at the Metro Council's Oct. 28 meeting. She said in an interview that she plans to hold events across the parish ahead of the vote to better inform the public on the merits of the settlement.

"What I plan to do is have a series of community meetings — north, south, east and west — that will be in-person and present the information that I have as one-twelfth of the council," Banks said.

She said she plans to focus on what she called the "gross neglect" of the Baton Rouge Police Department in hiring a "rogue cop" like Blane Salamoni, the police officer who shot Sterling.

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So she is going to go around the parish and taint the entire jury pool that will eventually hear the civil case. Taint the jury pool IN FAVOR OF the plaintiff and against the interests of the City Parish. Brilliant!

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