A jury in Prince George's County on Monday awarded $261,000 to a woman who said she was pepper-sprayed and punched by sheriff's deputies after they forced their way into her Greenbelt apartment to serve an arrest warrant on a man who was not there. [More]I love how the "Only Ones" always charge the victims of their brutality with "assaulting a police officer."
I think if I were on a jury, I might be inclined not to believe it just based on an anecdotal preponderance of evidence...
But here's the real central point of this story:
The jury determined that the two deputies violated Kimberly Jones's constitutional rights, even though they followed sheriff's department protocol...The sheriff's department's training and procedures are such that if you follow them, you will violate the rights of citizens."Again with "protocol." If it's officially sanctioned, but against the supreme law of the land, that is, illegal, doesn't that make it a conspiracy to deny a citizen their rights under color of authority?
[Via Harvey]
Personally, I would have them both hanged, the bodies burned, the ashes thrown into a dungheap, and make the award $500,000.
ReplyDeleteSean, you seem rather upset.
ReplyDeleteDon't make any big decisions while upset. ;-)
But, but David, surely you know when she blocked that baton strike with her arm she was "obstructing a law enforcement officer in his duty", at best, at worst by raising her whole arm and not just a finger she was assaulting the officers. Isn't she lucky that didn't happen where that sonofabitch Lynch(?) lives.
ReplyDeleteSeriously this isn't going to stop until the thugs start dying or are sent to prison. You can guess how much faith I have in the latter. Makes the former seem the only recourse, doesn't it?
I believe also this Cheye Calvo territory. Wonder if he is paying attention now.
So violating some ones human rights/constitutional rights is illegal, all this time I thought that department protocol/procedures was the highest law of the land.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't upset. If I had been upset, I'd have included the people who were responsible for the "protocol" being put in effect.
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