I always wonder where the family is when a person is homeless.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/11/30/jury-awards-more-than-2m-family-homeless-man-killed-by-deputy-sheriff-capitol/

WTF???!!!

2M of taxpayer money goes to a "family" who probably didn't give a f*ck about this guy until there is a money grab opportunity.

What shameless people. 

Typical banana republik at it’s best…..

I always wonder where the family is when a person is homeless.
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/11/30/jury-awards-more-than-2m-family-homeless-man-killed-by-deputy-sheriff-capitol/

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Exactly

Incentives for criminal behavior. Do bad stuff, get paid by the state. 

Incentives for criminal behavior. Do bad stuff, get paid by the state.

In this particular case;  Do bad stuff, get your surviving family members paid.

 

In this particular case;  Do bad stuff, get your surviving family members paid.

 

Why spend money on life insurance?  Esp if you're black. It pays to get shot by cops.

Wonder how the family won.  Usually it's to cover the financial support that was lost or pain and suffering.  Can't see that applying to a drug addicted homeless person.

Wonder how the family won.  Usually it's to cover the financial support that was lost or pain and suffering.  Can't see that applying to a drug addicted homeless person.

My guess is the estate of the deceased sued.  Whoever the beneficiaries of the estate are would share in the windfall -- including 1/3 going to the lawyers if using the customary formula.

WTF???!!!

2M of taxpayer money goes to a "family" who probably didn't give a f*ck about this guy until there is a money grab opportunity.

What shameless people.

I met a homeless lady once who had a real alcohol problem. Her family was somewhat well off from what I heard and they would repeatedly bring her supplies, take her in to get cleaned up and try to get her into treatment but she always chose alcohol and the streets. I have no idea about this particular person but in my experience homeless people are often homeless through their own making not because the family didn't care enough to help.

I met a homeless lady once who had a real alcohol problem. Her family was somewhat well off from what I heard and they would repeatedly bring her supplies, take her in to get cleaned up and try to get her into treatment but she always chose alcohol and the streets. I have no idea about this particular person but in my experience homeless people are often homeless through their own making not because the family didn't care enough to help.

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This is also true. Many times homeless folk are like that because they chose poorly. However I highly doubt that the surviving family suffered 2 million in damages. Furthermore, even if they did expend money to help this person, the general public is not responsible for their problem.

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This is also true. Many times homeless folk are like that because they chose poorly. However I highly doubt that the surviving family suffered 2 million in damages. Furthermore, even if they did expend money to help this person, the general public is not responsible for their problem.

You are a wise person, oldfart.

There are certain people and certain circumstances that force me to tell them "Please don't make your problem my problem".

I also in turn do not impose my problems on others unless it is warranted.

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This is also true. Many times homeless folk are like that because they chose poorly. However I highly doubt that the surviving family suffered 2 million in damages. Furthermore, even if they did expend money to help this person, the general public is not responsible for their problem.

Absolutely.

Maybe they were receiving and spending his social security benefits.  With him gone, the SS deposits stopped, so obviously you factor in the benefit money in today's value plus the cost of living adjustments and inflation to bump it up over his estimated years remaining.

Add to that the lawyer fees, and they may have been "injured" financially to the tune of $2M - 33% for lawyers = $1,340,000.  Never mind the detail that it wasn't their money to begin with.  But, if they needed that money to pay their bills and were counting on it, it's still a bite taken out of their income.

Just looking at it from the Local Liberal mindset.  That $2M is not hurting anyone -- it's just government money.  I don't know how many times I've heard that rationalization.

Hawaii does have a lottery.  It's called the civil court system.  Sue and win a bundle!!

The seriously mentally ill cannot be forced to receive treatment, the self imposed drug and alcohol addicted refuse to be treated, the genuinely down on their luck slip though the cracks overwhelmed by the other two.

The state enables by funding it all, through the hard working taxpayers monies.

IMO, if the first two can be dealt with, with actual seriousness, the last would be an easy fix.

However, the homeless industrial complex has grown so lucrative, the politicians and those whose profitability are funded by the “unsolvable problem” will never allow real solutions. 

This country is plagued by these “industrial complexes”.  Military, social, and pharmaceutical. 
Once these complexes are dismantled, this is when MAGA can be restored. 

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This is also true. Many times homeless folk are like that because they chose poorly. However I highly doubt that the surviving family suffered 2 million in damages. Furthermore, even if they did expend money to help this person, the general public is not responsible for their problem.

This is true, I think it hard for them to claim they suffered 2 million in damages. There are other types of reasons money can be rewarded such as a punishment against the party getting sued