Al Sharpton's daughter suing New York City for $5 million after spraining ankle 'real bad'

If you've ever sprained your ankle, you'll never forget the shame, the inconvenience, and the outright agony that you've endured. You remember the crutches, you remember how hard it was to hop around while holding a beverage, and you remember hobbling about in that big, ugly, boot.

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You also remember how no one really understood your pain. Sure, they feigned sympathy, but you knew that they were just faking it. They could never truly comprehend the life-changing horror that had befallen you. YOU twisted your ankle, and YOU knew that the tragedy which had befallen you entitled you to $5 million taxpayer-supplied dollars. At least, that's what you'd think if you were Al Sharpton's daughter, Dominique. As the New York Post reports:

Shakedown artist Al Sharpton’s eldest child wants $5 million from city taxpayers after she fell in the street and sprained her ankle, court rec­ords show. Dominique Sharpton, 28, says she was “severely injured, bruised and wounded” when she stumbled over uneven pavement at the corner of Broome Street and Broadway downtown last year, according to a lawsuit. Currently on vacation in Bali, the membership director for her gadfly dad’s National Action Network claims she “still suffers and will continue to suffer for some time physical pain and bodily injuries,” according to the suit filed against the city departments of Transportation and Environmental Protection. “I sprained my ankle real bad lol,” she wrote in a post to Instagram after the Oct. 2 fall.

If you're not familiar with internet lingo, "LOL" means "laughing out loud" and it should give you some indication of just how heart-wrenchingly serious Ms. Sharpton's injuries were. Yes, a sprained ankle is painful. No, your injuries are not worth $5 million. Heck, for normal people they're not even worth the headache of filing a lawsuit. However, the Sharptons are not "normal people." Al is a guy who's spent his entire life leeching off of governments, companies, and individuals - and it looks like he taught his kids to follow in his apparently wobbly footsteps. Like most of Al's alleged grievances, the Post points out that Dominique Sharpton's "injuries" were probably not as severe as advertised.

She was pictured in a walking boot in the weeks following the tumble, but by December, Dominique was good to go for NAN’s Justice for All march in Washington, DC, and for a New Year’s Eve jaunt to Miami Beach. And despite claiming “permanent physical pain” in a breathless notice of claim, there are social-media shots of her in high heels, and another of her climbing a ladder to decorate a Christmas tree. The legal shakedown is right out of her dad’s pay-to-playbook.

Still, Ms. Sharpton's suit claims that she has suffered “internal and external injuries to the whole body, lower and upper limbs, the full extent of which are unknown, permanent pain and mental anguish.” ...And that does sound serious. On the upside, if Dominique claims victory over the heartless city that so callously demolished her ankle, she could afford to pay her dad's delinquent tax bill!