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Minneapolis Public Schools to approve
$500K settlement in Deshaun Hill Jr. death

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Posted By: voxpopuli, 1/7/2023 8:44:39 AM

The Minneapolis school board is set to approve a $500,000 settlement next week for the family of Deshaun Hill Jr., the North High School student who was fatally shot last year. (br) Principal Mauri Friestleben had dismissed students early that day to attend a sit-in at Minneapolis City Hall to protest the police shooting of Amir Locke. W

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should have sued Girl Principal, Mauri Friestleben, for 10 million, PERSONALLY, and saved the taxpayers..

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Nimby 1/7/2023 8:57:00 AM (No. 1372873)
Typical Democrat shill- gives away Other People’s Money.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bighambone 1/7/2023 9:41:37 AM (No. 1372902)
The school board is not going to personally payoff what they voted for, instead they plan to use local Minneapolis taxpayers money. The question is will the taxpayers of Minneapolis stand for that? Remember chances are less than half of the money, if it is actually paid, will not go to the family, but will end up in the pockets of lawyers.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: hershey 1/7/2023 10:01:52 AM (No. 1372930)
Be a criminal student, get shot, get payback from the school....insanity...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: udanja99 1/7/2023 10:31:59 AM (No. 1372957)
Hey, it’s Minneapolis. What else would you expect?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Strike3 1/7/2023 10:54:06 AM (No. 1372979)
$500K is a relatively small amount to award a family for providing a martyr. The vocal horde behind Saint George Floyd was awarded $27 million. Duante Wright's family now have $3.25 million for a shopping spree that will assuage their grief. By contrast, Ashli Babbitt's mother was arrested for jaywalking yesterday.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: mc squared 1/7/2023 11:16:32 AM (No. 1373011)
I don't see how the principal was responsible for the death. Contributing negligence maybe, encouraging students to attend a rally that everyone knew would be a riot. ( I'm no lawyer) The rally wasn't a school sanctioned event. Desaun could have gone home.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Daisymay 1/7/2023 12:13:32 PM (No. 1373088)
Schools should NOT participate in ANYTHING outside of their own Business of TEACHING. In all my years in School, I don't remember one time we were allowed to leave early. The School should mind their own business. I would guess the Teachers and Students were most likely Black, but that still does not mean they should not complete the School Day. After that they can do whatever they want! Big Mistake from the people in charge that day!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by: WI Cynic 1/7/2023 2:51:55 PM (No. 1373193)
I remember only two sanctioned "get-out-of-school-free" events during my time in High School. One was an annual trade show for farm equipment/technology (I helped at the display for Harvestore silos when they were still the New Thing, so you know this was a while ago!). The other was Deer Season. Neither was particularly political in nature. The trade show was considered educational, and deer season was more of a religious event.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: janjan 1/7/2023 7:08:55 PM (No. 1373337)
Why do huge payoffs for losing one’s criminal child seem to be a racial thing?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: pensom2 1/8/2023 5:10:03 PM (No. 1373841)
Did anyone say that Deshaun Hill was a "criminal child?" Did I miss that when I read the article?
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