City Won’t Pay $6 Million Awarded to Man Wrongfully Imprisoned for Decades
20th April 2022
Qualified immunity allows law enforcement officials to get away with all manner of bad deeds. Now, the city of Durham, North Carolina, is proving that even if you overcome that obstacle, it won’t necessarily be enough to get justice.
After a Durham detective fabricated evidence, Darryl Howard was wrongfully convicted of murder and imprisoned for more than two decades. A jury awarded Howard $6 million in the ensuing lawsuit, but the city if refusing to pay it.
Worse yet, the city is asking Howard to pay the legal fees of two city employees dismissed from the suit.
The mayor of Durham, N.C., Elaine M. O’Neal:
She looks pretty white to me but undoubtedly ‘identifies’ as black.
Democrat, of course.