[Ignatius J Reilly]

"Taxpayers are giving away their taxpayer dollars because their police don't know the law," said Lane.

Yep, see many stories that basically come down to this. A dumb and/or overly aggresive cop meets a lawyer and the taxpayers shell out the $$

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A dumb and/or overly aggresive cop meets a lawyer and the taxpayers shell out the $$

And apparently, in this case, the cops and their chief learn nothing and will probably go on to cost the local taxpayers more $$$ when they do something similarly dumb again.