A motorist was left with little recourse after police grabbed his truck and stranded him, alone, on the side of the road in a dangerous Mesa, Arizona neighborhood -- even though he had not done anything wrong. US District Court Judge David G Campbell issued a preliminary ruling last Friday that Ted Mink, 47, had no right to sue the city over his treatment at the hands of the police. [More]Of course, if someone did the same thing to judgy-boy here, he might amend his opinion that such actions don't "go beyond all bounds of decency."
Of course they do. And you have to wonder at the sadistic type of "Only Ones" who would do this to another human being--under color of law.
The other thing, judge: Ultimately, it's not you who gets to decide what's "intolerable."
[Via William T]
With cops like that around who needs, uh, cops?
ReplyDeleteOkay, it's not quite as bad for Mink as it looks. He's still going to amend his complaint and refile.
ReplyDeleteThis is very telling, though:
"At worst, the officers intentionally left a man with a serious heel injury on the side of a road in the middle of the day, but near several gas stations where he could presumably call for help, pointed a weapon at him when it appeared he might assault the driver of a tow truck that had been called and refused to give him a ride home," Campbell wrote. "This conduct, even if actionable on other grounds, is not so extreme as to go beyond all bounds of decency and be regarded as atrocious and utterly intolerable."
I'm astonished at this. What happened to 'protect and serve', Yer Honor? Or just simple human decency? Hell with the ride home, couldn't one have loaned him a cell phone?
(For the record, I was in an auto accident a while back, and OF COURSE my cell phone's battery was depleted. One of the cops loaned me his cell to make arrangements for a pickup and for tow. Kudos to him.)
As I said before: it's like some cops go out of their way to piss people off...
That is because you cannot get justice in today's US courts. It used to be that the law was for everyone. Abraham Lincoln passed the Bar and became an attorney with only a grade school education.
ReplyDeleteNow you need a 7 year college education to even sit for the exam.
Pro se litigants have little chance in the courts, as the judges do everything they can to screw them.