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lemmy.world

Royer, who lives in Goshen, told The Indianapolis Star that the settlement money will “change my life.”

“I am now financially set for the rest of my life. I hope to help my family as much as I can,” he said. *

Oof. Hope this guy has a good, decent family around him. Especially with mental disabilities, there's at risk of bad actors coming out of the woodwork.

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lemmy.world

Quite a disparity between this outcome and the guy who got $175k compensation for spending 50 years in prison wrongly convicted. I wonder if that guy will sue for millions too.

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I really want to make a police tv procedural that get policing right. Basically, a crime happens and then the dumbest and cruelest person from your high school (the cop) frames a marginalized person while the media fellates the cop.

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lemmy.world

You might like The Shield, an old show worth binging, about bad cops. There's never been another show like it.

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I mean, as a writer for a show like this you'd have a never ending set of source material to draw on...

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A few free ways around paywalls, region-blocking, adblock-blocking, and URL glitches:

• archive.today
slow-loading, virtually unreadable without adblocker

• Ghostarchive
poor layout, spotty uptime

• Google Cache
frequently fails, but reliably captures video when it works

• Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)
slow-loading, but works

• One Foot Away
poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime

• 12-Foor Ladder
poor layout, quick-loading, spotty uptime, blocks major newspapers

If there are other workarounds, please let me know.

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Indiana man with mental disabilities, framed by police for murder, gets $11.7 million settlement | Spyke