Brickbat: Traffic Jam

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The city of Aurora, Colorado, has agreed to pay $325,000 to 14 people detained at an intersection while cops searched for a bank robber. A tracking device placed in the money by the bank led police to the intersection, but they could not determine which vehicle it was in. So they detained everyone at the intersection. Several of those filing the lawsuit were handcuffed and held for two hours.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The amount stolen from the bank? $5,000.

[straffinrun]

Let me guess the intersection. FY and TW?

[Fist of Etiquette]

It's where your rights intersect with authority's convenience.

[CZmacure]

When two people in Boston blew up a pressure cooker bomb, the police there "shut down" one of America's largest cities and engaged in door to door searches. The public there responded by describing their reaction as "Strong."

"We" get the Government "we" deserve, unfortunately.

[Radioactive]

please don't confuse the PR scheme with reality...Boston Strong is a registered trademark...

[Robert]

STEVE SMITH STRONG!

[crufus]

Couldn't the cops just wait until the GPS device moved to a different location and follow it?

It least they didn't shoot anyone, beat them to death, or conduct public body cavity searches.

[Princess Trigger]

[sigh] effort.

[Nunya]

Silly rabbit. How else am I going to get my required arrests for the day unless I go after groups of random individuals. Do you expect patience, police work, and thought.

[Monty Crisco]

And the money that each citizen received from the cops ALMOST covered their attorney fees!!! YAY!!! The process is STILL the punishment!!!

[crufus]

The city will pay the settlement, not the cops, so the police have no reason not to do this again.

The next time there's a robbery, the police can just search everyone in town. Aurora Strong!

[Cdr Lytton]

So the police were charged with false arrest, assault, and kidnapping along with the use of a firearm as an aggravating factor, right?

[WTF]

Qualified immunity, BITCHEZ!!

Because FYTW.

[Cdr Lytton]

I think at this point it's unqualified blanket immunity.

[WTF]

Yeah, pretty much.

[Cdr Lytton]

OT: So does Ronny Cox or Kurtwood Smith have alibis?

[ColoradoKook]

I seem to recall people 'round here praising the cops for detaining innocents in the name of "safety", though thankfully there were some rumblings of rights violations. Our republic is not dead, I hope.

[Jefferson Voltaire]

I remember watching the video of this insanity. Cops pointing 12 gauge shotguns at peoples children as they pulled them out of the cars, looking like they would blow their heads off if they just twitched wrong. Idiots that don't have the intellectual capacity to determine reasonable conduct, walking the streets with guns and an unfathomable authority complex. If that was my children, I would have lost it in an incomprehensible manner.

$325,000.!! -Not a single cop involved should be on the outside of jail cell.

[croaker]

So...what happened to the police supervisor who gave the order to "round up all the usual suspects"?

Nothing. Fucker should have been demoted to meter maid. And made to wear the regulation uniform for such duty (blouse, skirt, hose, pumps).

[Fileorg]

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