Officials have put a range of price tags on Black lives in the settlement payoffs surrounding high-profile police shootings of unarmed Black people over the past few years. In one of the latest cases, Baltimore was complaining about the tens of millions of dollars a court said it owed the family of a Black woman police killed under suspicious circumstances.
Baltimore County asked the court on Monday to reduce a payout of $38 million for the fatal shooting of Korryn Gaines, the Baltimore Sun reported. The police killed Gaines, 23, in a six-hour standoff in 2016 and injured her young son, who received $32.87 million of the award as compensation.
Source: How Much Is Black Life Worth? Payouts For Police Shootings Range Wildly
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