Must suck to be so bitter.
Congrats on the case. I have to say that your defense of "Al" was probably a little bit unnecessary. Don't let hateful idiots bait you into a defensive mode. You know more about the case and this guy than anyways; be satisfied with knowing the truth.
Every time I hear about a case of police brutality it's quite depressing. These are the people who are supposed to "protect and serve" but some of them go around serving their own biases and misconceptions. I guess there's only so much you can expect...being a cop isn't the most desirable job and with the salary/risks there's not really a chance that you always get the smartest/best candidate.
I myself, would not move if a cop has a gun drawn on me. It may be indeed that instinct urges one to "scurry" to safety
when a gun is pointed at them, but from the cop's perspective you might be going for a gun. I'm sure this was tramatic
for your client and the cops involved were asshats for the way they handed it, but 3/4 mil. for a false arrest??I'll sell you
a kidney for that!
when a gun is pointed at them, but from the cop's perspective you might be going for a gun. I'm sure this was tramatic
for your client and the cops involved were asshats for the way they handed it, but 3/4 mil. for a false arrest??I'll sell you
a kidney for that!
I think that it's quite honorable that you helped this man and untold others who could possibly have been harmed if the police were not penalized for their brutality.
I have no police record at all, but did have a police (3 of them actually) point a gun at me once. It's a long story but in short, my friend had just bought a real-looking BB airgun, it looked a lot like a revolver. We were in the car waiting for my friend's mom to get her hair done and he decided that was a great time to oil the new gun, so he opened the door and did it in the parking lot. Apparently someone saw him and called the cops, 5 of them showed up from all points of the parking lot and rushed the car with their guns drawn and had us all up against the car in seconds. In the 1 or 2 seconds I saw it coming, my instinct was not to run away, it was pure shock and disbelief.
The funny thing about it is my brother saw them coming and laughed when one of them stared yelling to get out of the car and and the ground. He thought it was some kind of joke. No one involved ahs ever let him forget that.
Capt Caveman
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Congrats on winning the case!!! Ignore the ignorant trolls, the internet brings out the wannabe lawyers and psychologists.
umbrella39
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It is one thing to be in a car when cops come rolling in with guns drawn (Confined Space) and another to be in an open area where you have no ideal what is going on around you.
I also don't think cops would consider "scurry to safety" as going for a gun. Usually you have to make a motion that you are pulling something out.
I didn't notice any comments about the officer Hernandez. 6'6" and 270 pounds? They let you become a cop if you're that big?
Capt Caveman
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The local paper just ran another big article about Al - check it out. They also have the 911 tape as an MP3.
JEDI
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"The judge ruled as a matter of law that officers had probable cause to take Mr. Hixon into custody," Iverson said Thursday. "Clearly Mr. Hixon was not involved in the bank robbery. We never disputed that. Officers don't have the luxury of 20-20 hindsight or the luxury to evaluate every possible scenario in a situation like this."
um.. how did you win with the JUDGE saying things like this?!
and only a 8 person jury?
and congrats on your $250k fee! Can i borrow some $?
While they had probable cause to detain him, they used excessive force in doing so. It's an interesting case considering that they did have probable cause. I'm sure the decision will be appealed.
Personally I think law enforcement is going overboard in using stuff like pepper spray and tasers, considering that one of the officers was a veritable giant at 6' 2" 220 or so I can't see how they couldn't just cuff him rather easily. The victim certainly doesn't look like a very imposing character.
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I don't know that the City will appeal, actually. Nearly all of Judge Kyle's important decisions went against us, and I just don't see much in the way of viable appellate issues. There is essentially incontrovertible evidence that the cops lied about knowing about a black male suspect when they arrested Al, and at the end of the day I believe the jury's finding was based fundamentally on credibility. We will be happy to argue the case to the 8th Circuit if it comes down to that, but my hope is that they will just pay. We shall see . . .
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Without getting into any information about our fee agreement with Al, the law provides that a successful plaintiff in a civil-rights case recovers his attorney's fees, in addition to his actual award. Our actual fees will probably be in the range of $400-450K.
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What made that judge so sure that race was not involved? The cops had no reason to believe he was a suspect, and when he told them they had the wrong black man they said "That's what you all say". If that isn't racism I don't know what is. The judge sounds like a corrupt scumbag.
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I don't agree with some of Judge Kyle's decisions, but I respect him and don't agree he is a bad guy. I felt, in particular, that his decision to kick our our false arrest and false imprisonment claims was wrong as a matter of law. He may have done us a favor by kicking out our racial discrimination complaint, because in some ways I think it was more effective to let the jury reach its own conclusions regarding the officers' motivations rather than to directly argue that they were motivated by race.
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