Re:14 Police Officers Take Down a One-Legged Homeless Black ...
by graycat on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:01PM
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Lawyers an bring law suits against the
police. My understanding is that there
are a lot of such suits and that they
cost taxpayers a bundle.
If the guy in the OP got a lawyer and won
a big judgment, say, $500,000, then
voters and, then, politicians would start
to take notice. If the SF police keep
attacking
old guys, then too soon one of them will
die, and the law suit could cost SF
millions. Then the politicians will
start to take positions and the voters
to vote.
Sure, one of the reasons the police get
away with stop and frisk, etc. is the
war on drugs. And if drugs are found
often enough, then that in effect justifies
the illegal stop and frisk.
But drugs do not have to have any direct
relevance: I doubt that the OP was really
about drugs. Instead, the cops just got
their jollies beating up on a poor, old,
handicapped, black guy on the sidewalk
in a high end business district -- jollies.
If the guy in the OP got a lawyer and won a big judgment, say, $500,000, then voters and, then, politicians would start to take notice. If the SF police keep attacking old guys, then too soon one of them will die, and the law suit could cost SF millions. Then the politicians will start to take positions and the voters to vote.
Sure, one of the reasons the police get away with stop and frisk, etc. is the war on drugs. And if drugs are found often enough, then that in effect justifies the illegal stop and frisk.
But drugs do not have to have any direct relevance: I doubt that the OP was really about drugs. Instead, the cops just got their jollies beating up on a poor, old, handicapped, black guy on the sidewalk in a high end business district -- jollies.