A teenager who video-recorded his mother’s forceful arrest by Louisiana sheriff’s deputies in 2020 has been awarded $185,000 by a federal jury in a lawsuit filed over one deputy’s attempt to interfere with the recording.
I don’t really see the comparison you’re trying to make. My point wasn’t based solely on the support they receive. Feel free to ask any questions if you’d like to understand what I’m saying/trying to say.
That said, I think insurance makes a bit more sense, but as I responded to another comment, I don’t think it makes sense for Americans to use taxpayer money to train a racist agency to brutalize black and brown (and increasingly poor white) people for profit and then wash its hands of all the blood that results and pretend it’s just the cops that are the bad guys, like they weren’t trained to act the exact way they behave
There’s also overwhelming support for doctors, who carry personal liability insurance and don’t get bailed out by the taxpayers when they screw up.
I don’t really see the comparison you’re trying to make. My point wasn’t based solely on the support they receive. Feel free to ask any questions if you’d like to understand what I’m saying/trying to say.
That said, I think insurance makes a bit more sense, but as I responded to another comment, I don’t think it makes sense for Americans to use taxpayer money to train a racist agency to brutalize black and brown (and increasingly poor white) people for profit and then wash its hands of all the blood that results and pretend it’s just the cops that are the bad guys, like they weren’t trained to act the exact way they behave