NYC Rioters Get $6 Million Settlement

People who rioted in New York City during the protests over the death of career criminal George Floyd in Minneapolis while in police custody have been awarded $6 million in "damages" because some of the NYC police officers who arrested them weren't wearing masks.

Bill deBlasio, NYC's mayor at the time of the riots, called the settlement "righteous. The hundreds of people arrested during the riot were needlessly exposed to the deadly covid virus by cops who went into the streets unmasked. While we may never know how many thousands died as a result of this despicable negligence, the survivors deserve compensation for the mental anguish they had to endure as a result."

The rioters started fires, vandalized statues, looted more than 400 stores--many of them small and family owned--and injured over 100 police officers. The damages are estimated to have exceeded $100 million. Many of the uninsured small businesses were bankrupted by the rioters.

DeBlasio showed little concern for these injured parties, saying "the grievances of the rioters against the racial injustices of slavery and discrimination go back hundreds of years. In a sense, the small shop owners were getting a taste of what it must have been like to be a slave and made to suffer the abuse of white masters. While some of the rioters achieved partial compensation through looting, not all did. The estimated $21,500 per person payout from the settlement will help right this wrong."

In related news, the defunding of police that Black Lives Matter has demanded since the George Floyd incident has corresponded with a 30% increase in the number of black persons being murdered. Far more black people are murdered by criminals than are killed by police. Ninety percent of the time the black victim's murderer is also black. Perhaps if there were more police fewer blacks would become murder victims.