re: For Alton Sterling's 5 children, Baton Rouge Metro Council will consider a $5M settlement

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If I did live in BR and my tax money was going toward shite like this, I'd be livid.

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Elections have consequences. It’s coming to a city near you.

Lea Anne Batson must be laughing her arse off at all this. Apparently she was the only one keeping this city from going off the rails completely.

Well, hurry the hell up and give it to them!! ...they'll stimulate the economy and spend that money quicker than a US Marine battalion in a Thai bath house, on leave after 16 weeks in the Mekong Delta.

Of course, when they are all broke by year's end, they'll blame "the system" for not teaching them $5mil wasn't enough to live "just like Drake".

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shite.

A Baton Rouge jury would give them $5 million EACH.

Cut your losses. Cut OUR losses. Take the deal.

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While I’m not convinced this is true, I do think you touched on a key point in all of this. Any decision to settle this case should be made based on recommendations from parish attorney’s office. Not Chauna Banks. Not protestors. Not SWB. The only reason for the city-parish to settle, in my opinion, is if the attorneys feel that it’s prudent in terms of risk/reward compared to trial. Otherwise, you might as well put a “pay $5MM to Alton Sterling’s family” ordinance on the fricking ballot and let the parish vote.

Honestly, I could make the argument that the government should never settle any civil case. It seems like an ethical clusterfrick to do so. If the city has a strong case, you’re pissing away taxpayer dollars. If the city is going to get destroyed when the evidence/testimony comes to light, the public deserves to know the facts of the case and the family deserves the higher judgement they would presumably be awarded.

I don’t see how back room settlement negotiations, paying off the family and avoiding bad publicity for the city, serve the public interest at all. The family is saying that BRPD’s poor training and procedures led to Sterling’s death. If that’s true, isn’t it important for the supporting facts to be revealed at trial?

Negligent Retention

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"Negligent retention" can be charged when an employer knew, or should have known, that an employee was unqualified to be in the job position he/she held when the action in question occurred. The negligence issue arises when an agency can be shown to have allowed a behavior to continue, even when the supervisor or administrator knew it was negligent. This does not mean an employer must monitor every aspect of an employee's behavior; rather, it means that administrators and supervisors must be aware that specific actions must be taken to guard against and lay the foundation for a defense against negligent retention lawsuits. Appropriate policies, training, progressive discipline and the involvement of dedicated human-resource personnel are critical to an agency's ability to defend against negligent-retention lawsuits. Courts usually examine a number of factors when determining whether negligent retention of an employee has occurred. The court will typically examine what the employer knew or should have known about the employee's job performance. Evidence of early intervention to correct poor performance or misconduct is important. Channels of communication between employees and supervisors must be clear, and employee performance evaluations must be regularly conducted in order to identify employees with performance problems. When it is clear that a pattern of incompetence and misconduct has not been corrected through training and constructive guidance, then the issue of negligent retention arises if the employer fails to remove the employee from his/her position.

Fn ridiculous

Hmm....pretty sure defense lawyers will be happy if the settlement gets pushed through

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Alton Sterling's son accused of raping 8-year-old According to arrest documents from the Baton Rouge Police Department, the child told investigators that Cameron Sterling pulled him into a bedroom, locked the door and raped him.

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I am sorry if someone has already pointed this out, but the statutory limitation of liability of a city in Louisiana for a single wrongful death is $500,000.