Brickbat: You'd Be Stressed, Too

A federal court has awarded Ju'Zema Goldring $1.5 million in a lawsuit Goldring brought against the city of Atlanta and police officers Vladimir Henry and Juan Restrepo. The two stopped Goldring for jaywalking, then arrested her on drug charges in 2015, claiming that the contents of a stress ball Goldring had were drugs. Goldring spent six months in jail before prosecutors had the contents tested and the results were negative. Goldring claims the officers performed field tests that also showed the results negative but reported them as positive. The police department claimed those tests were false negatives.

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

That kind of abuse should alarm everyone in that city, enough to demand heads.

[Jerry B.]

Can't call for the heads of Black Democrats, because racism.

[Longtobefree]

If you would call for the heads of whites doing the same thing, it is racist NOT to call for the heads of blacks.

[rbike]

6 months for $1.5 million? I'd probably do it but hurry cos inflation is making this less attractive every day.

[ElvisIsReal]

LOL A+ post

[Longtobefree]

And what about the $900,000 for two weeks reported recently?
Is there anyone tracking these payouts to assure equity across race, sex, genders, religion, and phase of moon?
Most importantly, are the lawyers getting fair shares of the loot?

[rbike]

Dibs, I was in on that first.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Buy a lot of spittin' tabacky, do ya?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Stress balls? Do you smoke it or snort it?

[MatthewSlyfield]

It's a suppository.

[Brandybuck]

Butt huffing

[mad.casual]

This is dumb. Crooked cops need to be working with crooked corrections officers so that they can get all the *actual* dealers and addicts in prison together in order maximize their profits from grifting.