Posted on 06/08/2019 12:20:00 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
PHOENIX – The man shot in the groin with a non-lethal weapon by police during a protest outside a 2017 Phoenix appearance by President Donald Trump intends to sue the city.
Joshua Cobin told KTAR News 92.3 FM on Friday that seeing Facebook posts by police officers that mocked the incident pushed him to file a precursor to a lawsuit this week.
The posts were in the news after this week’s release of the Plain View Project, a database of public Facebook activity by current and former police personnel in eight cities, including Phoenix.
The project’s website says the posts and comments selected were related to “race, religion, ethnicity and the acceptability of violent policing” and “could undermine public trust and confidence in police.”
Cobin said he’d been preparing the lawsuit for a while but was motivated to move ahead by the contents of the database.
He said he found “three current officers along with many former officers who had made malicious, mocking posts about a citizen they’re supposed to be protecting and serving.”
The Chandler resident, who lived in Scottsdale at the time of the Trump rally, said he was “nauseous” to learn he was a subject of some posts.
“After I saw that, and seeing how officers who are supposed to protect and serve are mocking a private citizen on their public social media accounts, that really just galvanized me to file it,” he said.
Thank you, too!
The video is not exactly clear but it looks like he’s holding a pistol. If so he was brandishing.
Don’t know anything about Arizona law, but this would be absolutely not actionable in California. Even conceding wrongfulness (which I don’t concede) not extreme enough to constitute intentional infliction of emotional distress. Statements of opinion not actionable as defamation
Smile now, leftist shits, horror is coming your way hard.
Plus I see he entered a plea to the criminal conduct with which he was charged. Bank on it- this goes nowhere
Little turd got what he deserved. He wasn’t just some Innocent peaceful protester.. judge should toss it but I am sure they wont
If he had been holding a pistol, he would have been shot with bullets, not just a pepper ball.
Just more paid protestors. Note the wagon with printed protest signs being carted off behind him in the video.
Also, where did all these “protesters” get the gas masks?
It was a riot...a somewhat fluid situation. If officer pepperballs saw him and only had his pepperball gun you shoot with what you came with or in your hand at the time. Remember the famous words of Tuco....Shoot don’t talk. Once he was down....he was um....neutralized.
Thanks for the video reminder.
Pepper cue ball?
One ball in the right pocket?
This is NUTS!
Sure, whatever you say.
The guy was smart enough to wear a gas mask, too bad he didn’t think to use a cup.
How do you know he wasn't an innocent bystander who just happened to be wearing a gas mask and kicked a "smoke bomb" (most likely a tear gas grenade) at the police. < /sarc>
If a whiff of the pepper doesn't work to clear the streets of leftist thugs, maybe a Napoleonic whiff of grapeshot will.
Pepper balls was the laughingstock of the Internet for a while. Now he want’s to go for round 2?
If you look at the whole video, a liquid comes out of whatever he is holding in his right hand when he is hit, and again after he is down.
Maybe an energy drink can.
OTOH, when he kicks the smoke canister back at police he is clearly participating in the riot -- no money for you.
This is nuts.
Ok my mistake.
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