Book em Danno!
Posted on 08/17/2006 7:46:51 AM PDT by SmithL
The brawny, long-haired, leather-clad ex-con with a soft side -- known to reality television fans as "Dog the Bounty Hunter" -- swept into a Daly City park last year with cameras rolling and city police officers in tow.
Duane Chapman and his Hawaii-based "posse" of family members, who star in A&E's most popular series, were after an elusive bail-skipper who had played for the Daly City Renegades semipro football team.
What happened next is the subject of an unusual civil rights lawsuit filed Wednesday at the U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Chapman's son tried to grab and restrain one of the players, but it wasn't the fugitive -- who wasn't even at the team practice on May 24, 2005. It was Daly City nightclub promoter Simaile "Cisco" Lutu, 29, whose mood quickly soured.
"Hey, what are you doing?" the 6-foot-5 Lutu said on film, easily pushing away Leland Chapman, who is much smaller. Lutu added, "Y'all about to see Dog f -- up."
The elder Chapman conceded that Lutu wasn't his fugitive from Hawaii, a 6-foot-tall suspected drug dealer named Samu Savea, and left, saying, "Be safe."
But the very next day, Daly City police, who were still working with Chapman to apprehend Savea, handcuffed Lutu and held him at gunpoint at a health club, the lawsuit says.
A day after that, Lutu was working at a Burlingame nightclub when he was cuffed and held at the point of a shotgun by officers from that city, the suit says.
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Dog bites man!
She's right.
This did happen in liberalville, after all.
I hope this gets thrown out. Dwayne isn't responsible for police actions on this guy.
Considering A&Es' programming, that isn't saying much.
As odd as that bunch is, I like the Dog bunch. They at least try and help people.
I think they are good spirits.
I hope they win.
My theory is that people watch "Dog" for the same morbid reasons they tuned into "The Crocodile Hunter" -- in the hopes that they'd somehow tune in for the episode wherein the knucklehead star gets his a55 shot/bit off.
How hard is it to catch a guy on an island. Sick Dog loose in New York or Miami.
The ARTS aren't what they once were.
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