There is an 'elephant in the tent' that they are pretending to ignore. This story has a certain iceberg like quality in that 90% of it is underwater. I hope the properly punish the person or change the policy that cost them a million dollars. So good on Atlanta for realizing what they did wrong. Worth, as far as I know, hasn't done much other than release self-investigations that predictably let the police off the hook. The settlement must now go back to a federal judge for final approval.įt. The city also agreed to oversee reforms within the Atlanta Police Department. A national gay rights group filed the federal lawsuit on behalf of 19 people who say they were illegally searched and detained during Sept. The Atlanta City Council voted 14-0 on Monday to pay the money to the Atlanta Eagle Bar. The city has agreed to pay $1 million to an Atlanta gay bar to settle a lawsuit over a botched police raid in 2009. But Atlanta has settled with the Eagle's patrons who were illegally detained and searched in a gay bar raid over a year ago that found nothing:
I really thought they would just run this thing through the legal system and appeal for years until everyone just lost interest.
