Chris0nllyn
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The city of Minneapolis has settled a lawsuit stemming from an incident two years ago in which city cops shot two pit bulls — one of which was so close to 3-year-old girl it splattered blood on her pajamas — in a North Minneapolis home.
The City Council agreed to pay James and Aisha Keten $225,000 on March 29, a few weeks after U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank wrote that he would not dismiss several counts of a complaint filed in 2011.
Most notably, Frank wrote that a reasonable juror could conclude that a Minneapolis police officer acted unreasonably when he fired multiple shots into small kitchen with a young girl nearby.
Minneapolis pit bull shooting results in $225K in settlement | The Journal
A federal judge has almost doubled the amount of money the city of Des Moines must pay to the owners of Rosie, the Newfoundland fatally shot by police in 2010, adding $50,000 in attorneys’ costs and fees to the $51,000 the city has already agreed to pay the dog’s owners.
At a hearing earlier this month, U.S. District Judge James Robart dismissed the city’s efforts to limit the amount of money paid to the attorneys for Deirdre and Charles Wright, whose pet Newfoundland was shot four times by police after they used a Taser on the dog and chased it from its yard.
Owners of dog slain by police are awarded attorney fees | Local News | The Seattle Times
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