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State To Pay $475K To Family Man Run Over By Police Bulldozer While Being Chased For Illegally Growing Pot Plants
CBS Pittsburgh ^ | 03/11/2021

Posted on 03/12/2021 1:20:41 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

READING, Pa. (AP) — The state of Pennsylvania will pay $475,000 to the estate of a man who died underneath a bulldozer that Pennsylvania State Police had used to chase him for growing a handful of marijuana plants, according to a settlement revealed in court Thursday.

Gregory Longenecker, a 51-year-old short-order cook and Grateful Dead fan, had fled into thick brush after being caught growing 10 marijuana plants on public land near Reading. His body was found under the treads of a Pennsylvania Game Commission bulldozer that state police had commandeered in pursuit.

The lawsuit by Longenecker’s family contended that state police and the game commission took “crazy and lethal action” against an unarmed man who posed no threat, then destroyed or withheld evidence to cover it up.

The plaintiffs’ attorney, Jordan Strokovsky, said outside court Thursday that Longenecker’s family is pleased with the settlement but wants “sweeping reforms to prevent such an excessive show of force and tragedy like this in the future.”

(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburgh.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Gardening
KEYWORDS: bulldozer; cannabis; marijuana; pot; wod
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I'm FLAT out shocked at reading this.
1 posted on 03/12/2021 1:20:41 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

10 is not a handful, that would be handsful. Anyway, I am surprised that they are only awarding 475K. His estate must have had a terrible lawyer.


2 posted on 03/12/2021 1:23:09 PM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase “Don’t Tread on Me, Bro.”


3 posted on 03/12/2021 1:23:24 PM PST by semaj (Death to Traitors)
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To: Responsibility2nd

long necker? lmao


4 posted on 03/12/2021 1:23:28 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Fund raising Rachel Corey pancake breakfast planned for_________. Is the dozer okay?


5 posted on 03/12/2021 1:25:45 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Winner of this year Rachel Corrie award for stupidity


6 posted on 03/12/2021 1:25:51 PM PST by shotgun
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Gregory Longenecker, a 51-year-old short-order cook and Grateful Dead fan.

Because being a short order cook & a Grateful Dead fan matters!

7 posted on 03/12/2021 1:26:46 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: rktman

Freepers have such great memories... :)


8 posted on 03/12/2021 1:26:51 PM PST by shotgun
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To: Responsibility2nd

“..A 51 year old short order cook and Grateful Dead fan..”


9 posted on 03/12/2021 1:26:57 PM PST by lee martell
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To: frogjerk

Any lawyer who would include the phrase took “crazy and lethal action” might just fit that description: terrible lawyer.

Not a phrase likely to have ever been used in court before...


10 posted on 03/12/2021 1:27:04 PM PST by Quality_Not_Quantity ("...for the sake of His name." Psalm 23:3)
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To: Responsibility2nd

George Floyd’s family just got $27 million.

This white guy is worth half a million

We have reparation
I repeat we have reparation


11 posted on 03/12/2021 1:31:00 PM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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and tragedy like this in the future

Prohibit the State Police from commandeering dozers!!!!


12 posted on 03/12/2021 1:33:14 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Corrupt Slow Joe Biden is the Bolshevik sock puppet.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Forget it, Jake - it’s that turd-world Mitthole Pennsylzuela, home of world-class vote fraud.”


13 posted on 03/12/2021 1:33:29 PM PST by kiryandil (New Movie: The Assassination Of Ashli Babbitt By The Anonymous Coward)
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14 posted on 03/12/2021 1:33:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: shotgun

Great what? 😂🙌


15 posted on 03/12/2021 1:34:31 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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You r so bad.


16 posted on 03/12/2021 1:35:36 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Truckin’...


17 posted on 03/12/2021 1:39:55 PM PST by fruser1
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To: rktman

u r bad


18 posted on 03/12/2021 1:41:41 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Did you hear about the man who ran over himself?

Yes, he needed some cigarettes from the store across the street, but no one would go for him, so he ran over himself.


19 posted on 03/12/2021 1:44:33 PM PST by PGR88
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They were chasing the guy with a bulldozer? I feel a cartoon coming on.


20 posted on 03/12/2021 1:45:53 PM PST by Brilliant
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