A journalist shot by police during the 2020 Minneapolis unrest following the murder of George Floyd is dying from her injuries, friends say.
Linda Tirado was in Minneapolis from out of state covering the protests and rioting when police shot her in the face with a rubber bullet, also known as a “less-lethal” round. She suffered a traumatic brain injury and was blinded in one eye.
She has a substack, and is a bit wavey around the details sometimes, but she writes about coming to terms with it.
https://lindatirado.substack.com/
The NPR article is also far more detailed.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/21/nx-s1-5015030/linda-tirado-journalist-shot-police-2020-george-floyd-protests-hospice-care
Thank you. Early onset dementia seems about right. It also feels like something insurance companies will claim would have happened anyway.
Never mind insurance; I’m hoping a prosecutor will take on the odds at the murder trial!
The defense will also claim that there is no way to prove that the dementia wouldn’t have occured regardless and they would be technically correct. The thing that needs to happen is to remove rubber bullets from the police arsenal.
Very early onset as she’s only 43-44 now … four years ago when she was shot she was 39-40.
Fascinating reasoning. As all mortal being eventually die (because living and dying are the same process), this would entail that no death is worth caring about, as all deaths ‘would have happened anyway’.
First of all, yes. The type of lawyer that work for insurance companies are the kind of person that would argue that everyone dies and a dead human has the same number of atom as an alive one.
My point is however a bit more human and practical. There are people that get dementia in their 40s without first having brain damage. There is no way of telling 100% if hers was a preexisting condition or not because most people don’t do brain scans before being brain damaged and if the system can avoid paying the common man money they absolutely will.
Especially since the police has given thousands of people brain damage and concussions and paying everyone that gets dementia money would be very expensive so the justice system at large would not allow it.