On the plus side, a federal appeals court has ordered two cops to *personally *pay a mentally challenged man they framed for rape and murder $7 million. Not the city, the cops personally. AFAIK, a court order like that means they can’t declare bankruptcy to get out from under it.
I hope it puts both of them out in the street, homeless and pissed on by society.
This is the kind of deterrent that will hopefully go a long way to stopping rogue cops.
Probably would have been better for the victim if the city and the police were held jointly liable, for the city would have deeper pockets. Is is possible that the city was not found liable due to its employees acting way the hell outside their job description? I don’t know one way or the other.
…So he’s pretty much not getting paid, is he ? I hardly think cops have five digit bank accounts, let alone multiples of 7.
I’m not sure how the law works in Florida, but he should be able to get liens against property, pensions, and the final estate when they kick off. As far as I know, only the feds can intercept any Social Security income.
Fucking awesome. Let’s hope this starts a trend–if a jury finds that the police acted with malicious intent, make them personally responsible. And make any other police that lied on their behalf personally liable too. Bet our police departments would clean up pretty fucking quickly.
Agreed. Make the police personally liable for some part of the award, and make the city liable for the remainder.
Not that it matters, but everyone involved with this is/was white.
Sure no one died, but still.
Extortion is still pretty controversial.
Commissioner Charles Ramsey thinks it could “very well be illegal”. He’s not sure :rolleyes:
“may have committed a crime”, Commissioner Charles Ramsey said
That’s fucking priceless
If you buy 3 tickets he’ll make sure it’s illegal.
I’d like to think that that’s just the generally cautious language that one uses when discussing criminal acts… ie, describing various of the recent spree killers as “alleged/accused mass murderer” when they were caught red handed but haven’t yet been convicted.
But that might be overly optimistic of me.
Other articles indicate that Internal Affairs has it now and then the Prosecuting Attorney’s office get’s the file. We’ll see where it goes.
“Buy these tickets or I take your car”
Is that legal?
Police - “I’m not sure if that’s illegal”
Really? You can’t answer a direct question about the legality of what is on the video?
And people still wonder why there is such mistrust, if not hatred of cops?
Police removed ten black woman from train in California after complaints they were laughing; Cite.
Kudos to the cops who were able to escort the compliant hos off the train without firing a single shot.
That seems to be a ‘controversial encounter between [employees of] a private company and its customers’ to me. Reading the article(s), I don’t see any police misbehavior. They met the women at the platform on which they were let out by the train crew, which seems to be their policy, but they took no other action.
Bitch all you want about the Napa Valley Wine Train crew -and IMO they should’ve spent more effort managing the person (or hypothetically, persons) who were complaining than they spent trying to manage a reading group enjoying the experience they were ostensibly selling- but I don’t think you can categorize this as police misconduct.
Probably the white woman who complained was pissed off because the women, being a book club, could read. This, of course, meant a perp walk.
Oops. You’re right, of course. OTOH, the line between LEO and private security gets blurred, and incidents like this make America’s move towards a police state more insidious and invidious.
Well, let’s not overstate it. Private security, including private uniformed security, has been around for decades.
Of course, they can’t bust heads like they used to. But they have their ways…