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A man who became an unintended victim of random police brutality has received a $100,000 settlement from the city of Seattle:
The city of Seattle has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit brought by a Seattle high-school teacher who was pepper-sprayed by a police officer after giving a speech at the city's Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally and march last year.
Jesse Hagopian, a history teacher at Garfield High School, said in his complaint that he was walking on a sidewalk and talking to his mother on his cellphone when a female officer pepper-sprayed him on Jan. 19, 2015.
The incident was recorded on video, which showed the officer waving a canister and screaming at passers-by to back up before spraying some of them.
Seattle PD's internal affairs department recommended a one-day suspension for Officer Sandra Delafuente, but the Seattle Police Chief gave a "verbal reprimand" instead, and later praised Delafuente as a "wonderful role model" with "a great record" to The Seattle Times.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday June 14 2016, @12:19AM
Your list of rules doesn't include the most important one: failure to identify despite not having committed a crime.
"First Amendment audits" have exposed the cops' reflexive need to identify anybody they deem "suspicious". Many states have laws that require detainment or an arrest before a citizen is required to identify themselves. Cops will ask for ID reflexively because they know almost all citizens will comply, not knowing their own rights. Failure to ID under these circumstances could anger the cro-magnon officer, moving them to threaten/arrest for violating a non-existent "failure to ID" law. Of course, once they initiate the arrest, that's when you can expect to hear the reflexive "STOP RESISTING!" Better hope you're filming, and have a hidden body cam in addition to a visible smartphone/camera that they will want to shut off.
"Can I see some ID?" Fuck you.
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