LA County pays nearly $10M to family of Compton man killed by sheriff’s deputies

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/la-county-pays-nearly-10m-to-family-of-compton-man-killed-by-sheriffs-deputies

LA is just a slush fund to pay for lawyers so the police can brutalize the population.

Related: https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd-settlements/

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technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 45d (2 replies)

LA is just a slush fund to pay for lawyers so the police can brutalize the population.

Related: Inside LAPD’s nearly $400M settlement crisis that’s bankrupting LA

stoly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d

If the city council wanted to, they could change this. They have never wanted to.

Madison420@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 45d

If you think California cops are bad you must not have visited the shit hole known as Texas.