Comments on: Charges Dropped Against Journalists Arrested at RNC

By: jayt

jayt — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:03:16 +0000

real story of the much-maligned McDonald’s coffee case:

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm

By: egregious

egregious — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:02:03 +0000

New post — Is Palin a Bircher?

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:56:24 +0000

Well if a jury could give $12 million to some idiot who spilled coffee in her lap, how about a police brutality suit for the pepper spray (there is precedent - the Redwood Summer protesters in Humboldt County California who had pepper spray dabbed on their eyelids)?

How about that guy that was tasered 7 times, once in the buttocks and was bleeding from where they pulled the darts out. No medical attention.

Or that guy who was coughing up blood after a couple of cops jumped on his chest?

I hope the City of St. Paul, the Sheriff’s Department and all the rest of the so-called ‘law enforcement’ pay a huge price for participating in this.

By: jayt

jayt — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:51:24 +0000

I hope that insurance policy is just a drop in the bucket when everyone sues for false arrest, and for refusing to give medical attention to people who were bleeding, and that one guy they tasered 7 times, and that lady they fire-hosed with the pepper spray and then wouldn’t let her shower…

It *will* be a drop in the bucket.

Dropping the criminal charges is something of a mixed bag. The civil case of a (formerly criminal defendant) is much stronger when that person has actually been tried and acquitted in a criminal court. Certainly nothing fatal to the civil case, obviously - just an inherently stronger case when backed with a prior acquittal.

I should also probably note a trick that gets played around here. As soon as a civil case is filed, the criminal case is immediately re-filed.

I don’t really anticipate that attorney’s fees should prove to be too big an obstacle. *Lots* of lawyers out there who would take such a case on a contingency basis, I would think.

Any lawyer worth his ~~ambulance-chasing-sneakers~~ salt would *love* taking one of these to trial…

By: MadDog

MadDog — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:35:58 +0000

Now that the Repug plague has mostly departed my fair city (St. Paul or Pig’s Eye, whichever you prefer), of course our illustrious Mayor (a Democrat no less) would now drop the charges against journalists.

No sense imprisoning the MSM on faux charges since they are needed to advance his political career. And of course, given the MSM’s Alzhiemers-like memory, all will be forgiven and forgotten. Right? Natch!

MSM in jail, what jail? Have another Pig’s Eye brewski on me!

As to all the ordinary Twin Citizens swept up by the Federally-led stormtroopers, if they smell alright, kneel before local judicial poohbahs, and promise to sin no more, they too are likely to see the faux charges dismissed.

As for the DFHs, spend a bundle on legal fees, kiss the local power structure’s Pig’s Eye ass, and maybe, just maybe, you too can walk.

And we claim to be “civilized” here on the tundra. Hah! In a Pig’s Eye!

By: egregious

egregious — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:31:30 +0000

New ew post

By: tbsa

tbsa — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:31:22 +0000

They should all sue for harassment and intimidation.

By: billybugs

billybugs — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:30:59 +0000

The video will do them in!

$10 million ain’t gonna be enough!

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:25:55 +0000

By: lokywoky

lokywoky — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:23:49 +0000

Also – was it this bad in Denver? I know there was an equally huge police presence and the ubiquitous “free speech cages”. Did they arrest journalists there? How about the number of protestors?