Why I hate the government, part II
So Tennie Pierce is being beaten up in the news over his 2.7 million dollar settlement with the city of Los Angeles. Good. His lawsuit is ridiculous, and the idiots on the LA city council have allowed him to set what will become an onerous precedent in future lawsuits.
Even if the dog food incident was racially motivated, 2.7 mil is an awful lot of compensation. LA has one of the worst school systems in the country, a horrible infrastructure, and in general just all around sucks. That money could have been a lot better spent in those endeavors than on payment to one hardly-abused man. Think what that money would have done for multitudes of poor black LA children who face a far harsher legacy of past racial discrimination than Pierce does.
In any event, I just wanted to link to photos published by the John and Ken show. The photos may be completely irrelevant to the facts of this particular case. Nevertheless, they illustrate the myopic nature of the decision by the council to award the money. At the very least, these should have been considered.
