Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Baltimore settles with family of Freddie Gray

I don't know exactly what happened, whether it was self-inflicted or police abuse, but Freddie Gray, either way, died while in police custody.
I read a while ago that he and his siblings were living off a settlement from lead paint being in their childhood home and their being disabled from it. The awarded settlement was cut as monthly checks to last for something like 30 years. Freddie got scammed by a company that buys such awarded funds, and he got his friends and family to sell their settlement money for pennies on the dollar.
I hate to think of what negative outcomes could happen now that the city is giving Freddie Gray's family millions of dollars. They should have a reality TV show to follow them and document how this windfall changes their lives.
Nothing against the Freddie Gray family, but they have a bad history with settlement money and you always hear about lotto winners going nuts and spending all their money and being worse off.
Is there a show following winners of lotteries?

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