I was’t sure if I should start a new thread, but wanted to give you guys the conclusion to this story.
I have agreed to settle my civil rights lawsuit. Of course, as part of the agreement they said I can’t say anything about it other than what they say in public. Lets just say I’m satisfied...
St. George, known as a speed trap, opts for patrols by county police
FROM STAFF REPORTS
01/17/2009
St. George — St. Louis County police will begin patrolling the streets of St. George starting next month, county officials said Friday.
The city will become the 17th to contract with the county. St. George officials voted unanimously in favor of the five-year contract for 24-hour police service, according to St. Louis County police.
St. George is the town of about 1,500 where a man in 2007 recorded a police officer’s tirade on a commuter lot near Interstate 55. The video, posted online, briefly put the south St. Louis County community in the spotlight.
The tape caught a St. George sergeant yelling, berating the motorist and threatening to arrest the man on fictional charges. The man said he put a video recorder in this car after previous run-ins with police. The sergeant was later fired.
Before that, the town was known, if at all, as a speed trap off Reavis Barracks Road west of Interstate 55.
Mayor Heather Hediger said six of St. George’s seven officers are applying to join the county force but they would not be policing St. George.
St. Louis County police said residents and business owners would get a letter in the coming days explaining the change. An open house also is planned.
Here is the mayor on TV talking about it as well.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2399325742831738837&hl=en
Good on you, Brett. It’s good to hear from you how things worked out. Be careful out there. They’ll never forget how you embarrassed them.
Glad everything turned out well.
Let us know where you archived all this stuff and when you will write your book.
Best regards,
Outstanding, now use the settlement to go to school. Don’t blow it on toys and crap. Spend it right, and in a couple of years you’ll have something to show for it instead of nothing.
excellent news Brett. Congrats.
We knew that Sgt. James Kuehnlein got canned, that the bald-headed police chief who tried to smooth things over with you liked to sexually harass teenage girls at traffic stops, and that the former mayor of your town is a pothead who collects child porn.
What I didn't know is that they folded up the entire police department. You were really at the mercy of a sordid cast of career criminals in your hometown, weren't you?
Let this message serve as a digital handshake from me to you. It's an honor to shake the hand of a Freeper who brought down an entire police department and a corrupt mayor. You're Gary Cooper around here as far as I am concerned.
I hope that your settlement is large enough to put you through law school with enough left over to even get a tattoo to commemorate the incident.