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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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