Federal court rules for disabled Marine vet detained by campus cops for COVID shot refusal

A district court has ruled that Matthew Warman, a former student at Mount St. Joseph University, can sue campus police for violating his Fourth Amendment rights after he was detained for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds.

Warman alleged that he was subjected to harassment, including derogatory comments from police officers, when he was forcibly detained for an hour at the campus security office.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals supported Warman's claim of a plausible Fourth Amendment violation despite dismissing most of his other claims, including those related to religious discrimination.

Warman, who is Catholic, objected to the vaccine on religious grounds, but was unable to receive an exemption. He was enrolled in the graduate nursing program at the Catholic university in Ohio. He is a Marine veteran who suffers from PTSD and brain injuries.

Warman, a former Marine, received several emails and phone calls from the campus security initially, and was detained and “berated” when he arrived at the security office.

According to court documents MSJU police officer Norb Koopman and campus police Chief Kevin Koo, defendants in the case, told Warman he was a “f***ing idiot” in need of “a new religion,” and that he should “grow the f*** up and get the damn shot.” They also told him that the shot did not violate his Catholic beliefs. During the meeting, the officers “also handed him Veterans Administration paperwork and ‘told him to fill it out in order to resign from the [university],’” according to the ruling.

In case you are unsure, it was the shots that damaged your organs.

Most of my organs have healed but not all and I still currently have the microclots.

I go in for eye surgery in a month or so to repair what they can for the jab damage.

I feel the same way about government school systems. They like running their own PDs. If they need LEOs on site, they should be allowed only if under the command of the Constitutionally elected county sheriff. There are too many cases of school system run PDs sweeping crimes under the rug because the crimes reflect poorly on the school system.
If you need LEOs on site, have them through the sheriff’s office as an additional check and balance.

In the 60's the local high school had a rifle range in the basement. The boys used to bring .22 rifles to school to shoot in the rifle range, and no one got shot. Now, the school has a cop in it, and no one else can have a firearm in the building. As we have seen in the school shooting, the school cop hides in an office and calls for back up when they have an active shooter. The cops wait for the gunman to run out of ammo before engaging the gunman. Things work best when people can police themselves.

Schools today use the police to handle disciplinary issues like boys fighting in the school, which wasn't that uncommon until about 20 years ago. That's something that should be handled by the school normally, unless the student is a threat to the school staff. We've just become an authoritarian society, in large part to protect "women's rights". The more women in the workforce, and the more women live alone, the more they need the police to handle all of their problems. The modern woman is married to the state.

There is also the unwillingness by the schools to discipline black male children raised by single moms.

Let’s speak about the elephant in the room. The violent crime rates speak loudly. There’s a real problem here that needs to be forthrightly addressed. Ignoring it creates many problems.

There is also the unwillingness by the schools to discipline black male children raised by single moms.

Race isn't just a problem with discipline. School districts avoid putting black students in remedial classes, which they need, out of fear of racism claims. So, those students don't get the extra help they need dur to PR concerns.

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