The penalty was paltry and the taxpayers paid, not the ignoramuses who broke the law. I would have liked to see the case proceed in federal court. If a jury finds for the plaintiff and assess punitive damages the individual defendants, not the govt entity, have to pay the punitive damages. That is what gets their attention.
Wisconsin Open Carry ping!
Send me a FREEP Mail if you want on, or off, this list. I’m minding it for Diana in Wisconsin.
It took FOURTEEN months for each of these men to get $2,000 in return for being kidnapped at gunpoint by armed men unfamiliar with the laws they’re paid to enforce..?
Imagine you pointed a pistol at a police-officer, then took him to another location (i.e. kidnapped him).
What would happen to you? Just lose your job?
MUCH worse would happen to you. Yet NONE of these men lost their jobs and it’s VERY likely they’ll do EXACTLY the same thing, next time.
They were held at GUN POINT, but more than 1 year later each of them get an amount of money equal to the cost of a PERSONAL COMPUTER.
Ah, whoops!
Only 2 were arrested, not 5, sorry. And I don’t know it was at gun-point, I only suspected it, as it’s Madison, Wisconsin.
I was wrong, there.
And it could be the cops were just following insane policy by the city?
Should they pay each of the 2, say $100k, or more? Yes —even more.
I faintly remember some Freepers running their yaps about these being trouble makers. Am I wrong about that?