Posted on 01/05/2015 8:02:15 AM PST by redreno
A Long Island Tea Party member is getting the last laugh after being awarded 1.12 million dollars in compensatory damages. Nancy Genovese, 58, a mother of three, was arrested in 2009 for attempting to photograph a helicopter at an Air National Guard base in the Hamptons. She claimed that she was only arrested during the incident because she belonged to the Tea Party. She intended to use the photo on a “Support the Troops” website; she was arrested for trespass and insulted as a “Teabagger.”
(Excerpt) Read more at xtribune.com ...
She won’t ever see a red cent but at last he’ll probably lose his job and some sleep and learn to keep his mouth shut...
What happened to the Deputy Sheriff and all those involved in these Gestapo tactics?
I can not find any mention anywhere of the cop, who is said to have called her a teabagger.
evidently thats privileged information.
I don't see why she won't get the settlement. Sounds like she earned it.
So some leftwing cops managed to cost the taxpayers there over $1,000,000.
Maybe take the money out of their pension fund and they’ll start to care about people’s rights...
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“well done !”
I wish to state that during the 2015-01-03 “Stop Obama Amnesty and FIRE John Boehner” rally in St. Petersburg, FL ...
that a Florida State Officer talked with us at approximately 1:45 PM-EST ...
he was very polite and acknowledged our First Amendment right to free speech ...
it was a genuinely positive experience.
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sleazy NE libtard scumbag alert!!!!
“Maybe take the money out of their pension fund and they’ll start to care about people’s rights...”
Do you mean an asset forfeiture law for those who work in the criminal justice system?
I mean, the insult itself would probably fall under libel, for starters.
Dishonest headline, didn’t win the case because the guy called her a teabagger, won the case because they grossly violated her civil rights.
Misleading headline. Makes her lawsuit sound trivial.
AND convicted in a court of law. Big difference.
I am sure they got a paid vacation and then were eventually put back to work with a raise!
Great idea. Someone should sue Obama:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/11/28/obama-refers-to-tea-party-members-as-teabaggers/
“Maybe take the money out of their pension fund and they’ll start to care about people’s rights...”
Do you mean an asset forfeiture law for those who work in the criminal justice system?”
BINGO.
Every state that has these asset forf. laws need new bills that provide balance. Rights violating LEO have settlements paid out of their pensions, immediately upon court verdicts.
Or the taxpayer funded insurance company will pay
As I read the story, it seems she was unlawfully jailed for 4 days. I think that’s the reasons she won the suit?
How is this worth 1.2 million in damages?
Here’s the arresting officers’ names.
From http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Southampton/293286/East-Quogue-woman-files-70-million-lawsuit-against-Suffolk-County-and-Southampton-Town
The litigation charges that the arresting officers—who included Southampton Town Police Lieutenant Robert Iberger and Suffolk County Undersheriff Joseph T. Caracappa, among others—repeatedly referred to Ms. Genovese as “a right-winger” and “tea bagger” because of her political beliefs. “They saw the cross around my neck and asked if I had been to any tea parties,” she said. “I went to a tea party—I told them that.”
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