Calm down citizen. That is just the price of keeping the streets of Greenville safe from real crime!</sarc>
SC ping worthy?
Sorry, I guess they missed the "secure in person and papers" right.
Shouldn’t they be suing the court or county officials who actually made the mistake?
They need our Sheriff over there but cannot have him.
So they admit that they were acting under color of law? Sue them in Federal Court. That's where the suit should have been brought, anyway.
"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress..."
42 U.S. Code § 1983
If the facts are as stated above are true, I hope she gets millions.
In an ideal world, or a common sense one, the settlement would be paid from the cities public employees pension fund.
At least they did not shoot her.
Okay, that should be worth about $250,000 ... I hope she gets it!! AND ... FIRE the people involved in all phases of her arrests and detainment. Maybe that will make officials and employees smarter and act more intelligently!
They ought to be sued, this woman should win.
At least no dogs were shot.
It also sounds like the original ticket was a bit much too. Speeding less than 10mph over the limit. Just about everyone does that.
The police KIDNAPPED her.
After reading this I still have a comment for Obama. Please outline the laws that we LEGAL citizens of the USA are allowed to break.
I hope she takes ‘em to the cleaners.
I can’t help wondering if she didn’t draw their attention because she is a very attractive woman. If they just stopped her for being a blonde driving solo, then she really does have a case, the arrest was the result of malice, not negligence. I want to see specifically what report of a stolen car they were reacting to. Sounds like B.S. to me.
She got a ticket when she was 18 “for driving too fast for conditions or speeding less than 10 mph over the speed limit.” Total BS. When she was 18 a cop stopped her because, hot as she is at 32, she must have really been a babe at 18. Who Hell gets pulled over for less than 10 miles an hour over the limit? Young blondes. She apparently failed to accommodate the cop, so he gave her a ticket. Pathetic.
Dang, white people whine when you lock them up by mistake. I guess if you were a better driver, there wouldn’t have been a problem.....
A ten year old citation, yet she was able to license her car and herself during that period.
This is the lack of common sense and disregard that ticks me off. A reasonable LEO might have taken a look a the situation and said, “Miss, you have a bench warrant out for your arrest from 10 year ago for a speeding ticket. Here is my card, I want you to come down to the station tomorrow, so we can determine what’s going on with that.”
We have real crime, and we let illegal aliens run amok, do we really need to throw people in jail for this? Was she a flight risk?
She was NOT ARRESTED, She was the Victim of a FELONY KIDNAPPING, Life in Prison for every last person involved
Not the sheriff or deputies fault....court clerk messed up way back when.
Deputy ran her name and system showed a warrant which someone then walked to a file cabinet and pulled out the paper warrant and said “yep...here it is...verified”
Then she goes to jail because a clerk in the courthouse never had either the payment of the fine entered or a warrant which had been drafted and entered before the court case was adjudicated.
Someone at the court house should be fired.....the guy driving the patrol had nothing to do with the mistake...he was basically the cab research de to jail after some judge said bring her to me.