Ku Klux Klan hood-wearer to get $215,000 from Los Angeles

[Jazzy]

The city will pay $215,000 to a man who was tossed out of a city commission meeting for wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood.

The City Council voted Wednesday to settle a free-speech lawsuit by Michael Hunt, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

The Venice-area resident, who is black, wore the hood and a T-shirt emblazoned with a profanity and a racial slur against African-Americans during a 2011 meeting of the Board of Recreation and Parks Commissioners.

Hunt has worn the outfit at other city meetings to confront what he believes is government discrimination, said his lawyer, Stephen Rohde.

"He has co-opted these images and uses them to protest back against the city," Rohde said.

At the parks commission meeting, then-President Barry Sanders told Hunt that his garb violated city rules of decorum and told him to remove the hood and "offensive signage" or be ejected.

Hunt was escorted out and cited for disturbing a public assembly but wasn't prosecuted.

The settlement "means that the city is held accountable when it violates civil rights and First Amendment rights," Rohde said.

City Councilman Bernard Parks, who also is black, says the council decided to settle because it might have been forced to pay much more in legal fees if the case had gone to trial.

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Do you think he deserves to get $215,000? Why / Why not?

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Of course Los Angeles paid some outrageous price for this. Just insanity! Apologize and let the nut case come to the next meeting with his stupid outfit. He might have a reason for the money if they beat and tarred him out of the meeting. But! If I would have been wearing my Tea Party Patriots shirt in that leftist city I would still probably be in jail. I just love wearing my conservative Tee shirts when I visit that city wear my wifes sister lives.

 

[Evil Eye]

Well that's a waste of money that could've easily been avoided.