1 posted on
08/28/2002 1:02:00 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
Who's going to pay for the towing?
To: Dog Gone
One of those people arrested has filed a $100 million lawsuit against the city, accusing Aguirre and the city of falsely arresting him for "attempted trespass." Let's see, 100 million, times 278....Looks like no payraise or Christmas donut bonus for the Houston PD boys this year!
4 posted on
08/28/2002 1:13:03 PM PDT by
archy
To: Dog Gone
Dog....
In years to come,we are going to hear more of this "lawful-unlawful" orders affair.
15 posted on
08/28/2002 1:43:16 PM PDT by
cynicom
To: Dog Gone
The city attorney told the council that if an internal affairs investigation reveals that the arrests were illegal, the city will dismiss all of the charges against all of the people and even overturn the convictions for those who pleaded guilty to get out of jail. They had better expunge all record of the arrests and give every person an official written apology. Otherwise, these arrests will come back to haunt some of them.
To: Dog Gone
"Zero tolerance does not override the need for probable cause to issue citations or to make arrests, nor does it mean to arrest everyone in sight," Bradford said. Glad to hear that clearly stated.
"No officer in the Houston Police Department has ever been cited with insubordination or any other offense for their refusal to obey an unlawful order nor will they be on my watch," Bradford said.
It would be interesting to see how often this has happened and what the situations were.
The city attorney told the council that if an internal affairs investigation reveals that the arrests were illegal, the city will dismiss all of the charges against all of the people and even overturn the convictions for those who pleaded guilty to get out of jail.
And settling lawsuits.
Good article.
24 posted on
08/28/2002 2:24:16 PM PDT by
niki
To: wku man
ping - more official information on Kmart
26 posted on
08/28/2002 2:29:12 PM PDT by
niki
To: Dog Gone
Well, let's see the amen corner explain this one.
Obviously the city of Houston got some cop-hating, liberal, ACLU-type for their city attorney.
Nah, that probably won't fly.
How 'bout this? Who ya gonna believe? Your lying eyes or the noble Captain Aguirre? (Pay no attention to all of the internal complaints behind the curtain.)
Better, but I dunno.
I know! I know! K-Mart actually did file a complaint. It wuz them cop-hating, liberal, ACLU-type lawyers. They got into the department paperwork and spirited it out so it don't exist. Now K-Mart is weasling out about making a complaint since the paper trail disappeared.
Whatever they say, one thing I have no doubt about -- they will say it was everyone's fault but the bad-apple cop that planned this, and the cops who blindly followed him into the swamp.
To: Dog Gone
Dog Gone,
Just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate all the info you have posted on this. I've been able to keep up to date because of your work.
I have a feeling that Bradford got a premonition that he may be expendable. Lee.P. will toss him to the sharks, and Bradford knows it.
To: Dog Gone
"No officer in the Houston Police Department has ever been cited with insubordination or any other offense for their refusal to obey an unlawful order nor will they be on my watch," Bradford said. I don't buy that for a second. The chief is projecting blame downward. Under different circumstances, an officer refusing to carry out an illegal order (presumably with relatively minor consequences) would face a career of parking meter duty. I'm not saying what they did was right; I'm just reflecting my view of human nature as it pertains to the chain of command.
64 posted on
08/28/2002 6:20:24 PM PDT by
meyer
To: Dog Gone
Lets see. If I had been falsely arrested while having a burger at the Sonic, or while coming out of the K-Mart (not that I would ever shop at an anti-gun outfit like that) at the very minimum I would want would be:
1. Expungment (complete erasure) of all arrest records, to include the NCIC databases.
2. A written admission of wrongdoing from the city attorney on behalf of the city, notarized, 20 copies with original signatures.
3. Payment for all towing fees and damage to my vehicle.
4. Twice my hourly salary for all of my time involved in the incident.
5. A paid advertisement/apology on the frontpage of every newspaper in town for a full week, including the Sunday edition.
6. The same as number 5, but on TV and radio, every hour every channel for a month.
7. The mayor to apply his lips to my posterior repeatedly, on the steps of city hall for 15 minutes, after I had an hour to draw a crowd.
Given all that, I would not sue them for $1,000,000,000,000,000.
74 posted on
08/28/2002 7:29:55 PM PDT by
LibKill
To: Dog Gone
>> Councilman Mark Ellis and others said that they wondered why no one blew the whistle before this raid, because a smaller sweep was done the night before at a James Coney Island eatery in which 25 people were arrested.<<
Maybe they got a thrill out of it.
To: Dog Gone
Whoston?
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson