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$40M lawsuit: Ferguson police used excessive force
5 plaintiffs also charge false arrests of innocent bystanders
Published: 17 hours ago
(Associated Press) A federal lawsuit filed Thursday says police in Ferguson and St. Louis County used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Police departments are acquiring major battlefield equipment that emboldens officials to strong-arm those they should be protecting. “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming our Reality” (Autographed) chronicles how we got to this point.
The five plaintiffs in the suit in St. Louis include a clinical social worker who said she and her 17-year-old son were roughed up and arrested after not evacuating a McDonald’s quickly enough. They also include a 23-year-old man who said he was shot multiple times with rubber bullets and called racial slurs by police while walking through the protest zone to his mother’s home, and a man who said he was arrested for filming the disturbances.
Read more at 40M lawsuit Ferguson police used excessive force
OMG! This is crazy! What part of “disperse” do you not understand…what part of “ be off the streets after midnight” do you not understand? These same fools were bringing their children to a very tense situation. Really???
I watched this unfold, I know the neighborhood, I disagree that there was excessive force. I thought they done a good job to control the crowds.
What the police failed to do was stop the looting and destruction of buildings/businesses. Officer Wilson was the only one who done what he set out to do....STOP THE THREAT!
This is just a quick get rich scheme, they will never win this case
I would hate to be a cop nowadays
5 plaintiffs also charge false arrests of innocent bystanders
Published: 17 hours ago
(Associated Press) A federal lawsuit filed Thursday says police in Ferguson and St. Louis County used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Police departments are acquiring major battlefield equipment that emboldens officials to strong-arm those they should be protecting. “Police State USA: How Orwell’s Nightmare is Becoming our Reality” (Autographed) chronicles how we got to this point.
The five plaintiffs in the suit in St. Louis include a clinical social worker who said she and her 17-year-old son were roughed up and arrested after not evacuating a McDonald’s quickly enough. They also include a 23-year-old man who said he was shot multiple times with rubber bullets and called racial slurs by police while walking through the protest zone to his mother’s home, and a man who said he was arrested for filming the disturbances.
Read more at 40M lawsuit Ferguson police used excessive force
OMG! This is crazy! What part of “disperse” do you not understand…what part of “ be off the streets after midnight” do you not understand? These same fools were bringing their children to a very tense situation. Really???
I watched this unfold, I know the neighborhood, I disagree that there was excessive force. I thought they done a good job to control the crowds.
What the police failed to do was stop the looting and destruction of buildings/businesses. Officer Wilson was the only one who done what he set out to do....STOP THE THREAT!
This is just a quick get rich scheme, they will never win this case
I would hate to be a cop nowadays