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To: Robert Teesdale
Chilling read on how these asshole cops acted.

Read it here

34 posted on 09/29/2015 8:03:49 AM PDT by sjm_888
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To: sjm_888
Chilling read on how these asshole cops acted.

I read the linked decision from the court. I think their behavior is crass, abusive, disgusting, unlawful, and a liability to their department and society.

And criminal.
43 posted on 09/29/2015 8:29:17 AM PDT by Robert Teesdale (III% | 4GW)
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To: sjm_888
Thanks for posting the decision itself. It's always useful given how poor such things are reported through the media.

Here's an interesting slap down of the officers from the opinion:
Even if the unconstitutionality of the alleged conduct was not clearly established through case law, the violation was so obvious “a reasonable state actor would know that his actions violated the Constitution.” Siebert, 256 F.3d at 654. The likely reason why there are so few analogous cases (Williams is the only factually similar case this Court has found), is that police officers know better than to detain, arrest, and jail someone in these sorts of circumstances.

In other words, cases with these particular circumstances don't come up often because most cops are smart enough to know that you don't detain a woman in labor.

80 posted on 09/29/2015 12:31:09 PM PDT by zeugma (Zaphod Beeblebrox for president! Or Cruz if Zaphod is unavailable.)
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