While Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton and his three controversial appointments walked away with a pension today, a Memphis firefighter injured on duty was told to wait a month.
James Coleman was only a recruit in 2004 when an injury during a training exercise left him brain-damaged, said his attorney Jeffrey Rosenblum. Coleman sued in 2004 and 2006 settled with the city government, which kept the disabled firefighter on the payroll until June.
Rosenblum came before the city's pension board today to claim Coleman's on-the-job injury annual pension, around $30,000.
But the pension board told the attorney to come back in a month.
"The city moves slowly," Rosenblum said.
Not for all, apparently.
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