Baltimore To Pay $6.4 Million To Freddie Gray's Family

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Originally Posted by catswiththum

That is the law of the jungle - I am sorry you feel that way.

I don't have to tell you the law exists for a fair and just hearing for the accused, regardless of the feelings of any one individual or group.

The officers have not had a trial, no evidence has been given, no testimony heard - the city has pronounced them guilty with this settlement and denied them that right.

It is just feelings, and I so identified them. But you wax hyperbolic. Law of the jungle would be throwing them to the mob. There will still to be trials, and their outcome is hardly certain.

Anyway, we're just arguing opinion. How 'fair and just' would the trials have been? How 'fair and just' will they be now? The thing cannot be measured. Is the quanta of negative 'fairness and justness' greater or lesser than the positive quanta (if any, you seem inclined to be unsure) of granting monetary recompense to the family now, and through a final settlement, instead of years from now after a court action and a string of appeals? That also cannot be measured. So your sorrow for my feelings is just more feelings. I'm tempted to say 'thanks for sharing.'