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4 women sue San Jose police for force
The women, all San Jose University college students at the time, say in court documents that police hit them with batons, pepper-sprayed them, handcuffed and arrested them and made a racial slur, even though they had not been drinking and weren't participating in a nearby celebration, The San Jose Mercury-News reported Monday.
The newspaper said video of an officer striking one of the women in the back of the legs with a baton was shown on KPIX-TV, San Francisco. San Jose police officials wouldn't discuss the incident except to say that one of the excessive force complaints filed by the women had been "sustained" -- a rare admission of wrongdoing by police authorities, the Mercury-News said.
One of the plaintiffs, Natasha Burton, said officers accused her and her companions of "coming from Oakland," which she took as a racial remark.
In fact, the newspaper said, Burton is the daughter of a San Diego police officer who headed a youth advisory group for that city's police department. She later graduated with a criminology degree.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/02/2009
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11-04-2009 11:39
jj wrote:
This column is supposed to be about
RELIGIOUS news. What is religious about this story?
11-03-2009 23:12
Karen wrote:
oops it looks like they picked on the wrong people
11-03-2009 20:28
bj wrote:
cops r us
The hardest thing for today's spoiled youth to understand is that when the cop says, "Move on," (s)he means you.
I am all for using that camera but cops get hit front, back and sideways. Get out of their way when they are working and they won't have to suspect you of being one of the forces of evil they have to mop up everyday. Go sit in your car, bus bench, out of the way and take all the picks you want. Just be sure you show the whole story.
I am all for using that camera but cops get hit front, back and sideways. Get out of their way when they are working and they won't have to suspect you of being one of the forces of evil they have to mop up everyday. Go sit in your car, bus bench, out of the way and take all the picks you want. Just be sure you show the whole story.
11-03-2009 13:19
wrote:
It is amazing that there always seems to be a camera available to document these "abuses" by police officers doing their duty!
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