Philadelphia will pay $2M to Rickia Young, the woman police beat in front of her child during unrest

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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

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Philadelphia will pay $2M to Rickia Young, the woman police beat in front of her child during unrest

Mayor Jim Kenney called the treatment of Young and two children who were with her "absolutely appalling."

by Anna Orso
Updated 2 hours ago

The city of Philadelphia will pay $2 million to a 29-year-old mother who was pulled from her SUV during civil unrest last October and beaten by police then separated from her toddler — a scene captured on video and shared widely on social media.

The city said Monday that had it reached the agreement after negotiations with lawyers for Rickia Young, a North Philadelphia home health-care aide who the video showed tried to drive through mayhem and then was swarmed by officers who bashed in her windows. She did not file a lawsuit.

A police officer and a sergeant were fired in May as a result of their conduct during the incident, and an additional 15 officers are awaiting disciplinary proceedings, department officials said Monday.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said in a statement that “instead of fighting crime and the fear of crime, some of the officers on the scene created an environment that terrorized Rickia Young, her family, and other members of the public.”

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If you remember the scene in Philadelphia where police surrounded a woman's car during protests, smashed her windows, then yanked her out and beat her -- all before the national FOP used a picture of an officer holding her son as propaganda -- that's, well
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[The Magistrate]

1. Wake Me When The Police Are Doing Time For Felony Assault, Sir

Money is nice, but until the criminals with badges suffer serious personal consequences, this sort of thing will continue unabated.

[lamp_shade]

2. This

[PatSeg]

3. I was thinking the same thing

Accountability should be the first and primary objective.

[sakabatou]

4. Yup

[MrsCheaplaugh]

12. True. Nt

[Demovictory9]

5. excellent

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. As several of the commenters in the thread noted, it's not the city of Philadelphia that will pay

$2 million to a 29-year-old mother who was pulled from her SUV during civil unrest last October and beaten by police then separated from her toddler{,}

it's the taxpayers who live in the city of Philadelphia who will be handed the bill.

[cstanleytech]

8. Solution might be to redo it so that the police officers unions are now required to pay out when the

police are sued that would then perhaps give the unions more of an incentive to weed out problem officers themselves rather than protect them.

[csziggy]

10. Police should have to carry the equivalent of malpractice insurance

Offered through the police unions. If the insurance companies refuse to provide insurance for specific problem officers, the unions will either have to pay out directly or keep them out of any police force.

The power of the marketplace, as RepuQs like to put it.

[Politicub]

15. The police operate like an unaccountable, rogue force.

Even if they don’t get prosecuted for their abuse of the people they’re supposed to protect, the taxpayers are responsible for paying for the result of their violent behavior.

And, in this case, the mother and her children will live with fear and trauma for the rest of their lives. No amount of money will make that go away.

It’s frustrating, because I don’t see a way forward to fix the police.

[The Jungle 1]

7. It is called fascism.

That filthy fascist who walked around Ms. Young's car and broke every window and drug her out of the car and helped beat her will not go to work today he was fired along with a Sargent.
I wonder if his pension is intact.
I also wonder why he has not been charged with any crime. What would happen if a citizen did what he did.

We need to make police understand the way they are acting is fascism. We will not allow it and the free ride is over. Call it what it is.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. I finally got chance to read the story in this morning's paper (online)

and what happened with that poor woman was just breathtakingly bad.

I believe she lived in the area and was trying to drive through the neighborhood to get where she needed to while chaos ensued around her on one street along her route, where protestors were active - and Philly's "finest" had a field day, apparently because they fantasized that her teen nephew in the car "fit the description of...".

What they DO need to do is to completely decertify FOP Lodge 5 and wipe them off the face of the earth.

Here is the Inquirer's video of the woman's lawyers showing what happened a few days after the incident last October -

[littlemissmartypants]

13. I'm totally in love with these lawyers! I'm so glad that they are

Getting justice for her, her son and nephew.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. Agree

They laid out the case fairly simply but powerfully, but it's a shame that the taxpayers have to pay for the savage behavior of Philly cops.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. I know that some day it's possible that you or I might be in the same boat.

For that reason, I would want my tax dollars to go to you if it means that you can have justice. ❤

[BumRushDaShow]

17. I would hope that instead

the FOP Locals be required to create a "police victims' liability insurance fund" that their membership be required to pay into, in order to cover those settlements. When it starts coming out of their own pockets, it might be an incentive not to go rogue.

Doing that pooled fund would be a compromise from charging an individual cop some multi-million dollar civil settlement (even if they were charged criminally) that they will never be able to pay and thus the tax payer picks up the tab instead. And here in Philly, cops are no longer required to live in the city (the compromise being that they only have to be residents for the first 5 years of their careers), so they would have zero liability because they wouldn't be "tax payers".

[EarthFirst]

11. Disburse it from the pension fund...

As a taxpayers; we should demand it!