A Cop Jailed Her for 2 Years on Fake Charges. Will She Ever Get Justice?
St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker has thus far managed to get immunity for upending Hamdi Mohamud's life.
A Minnesota woman has resuscitated her effort to sue a police officer who jailed her as a teenager for two years on false charges associated with a sham sex trafficking investigation that the FBI once billed as its largest human trafficking crackdown. The case is another example of the legal labyrinth victims are required to navigate when attempting to get recourse after the government infringes on their rights and once again raises the question: How inoculated should those government officials be from civil suits for violating the Constitution?
Hamdi Mohamud's odyssey began over a decade ago when St. Paul police officer Heather Weyker had her arrested on witness tampering charges concerning a woman named Muna Abdulkadir, who allegedly attacked Mohamud and her friends at knifepoint. Abdulkadir was crucial to Weyker's sex-trafficking case, which, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit conceded, was "plagued with problems from the start." Some of those problems included Weyker lying under oath, coercing witnesses, editing police reports, and making up evidence.
The groundless charges against Mohamud were ultimately dropped, but not until she spent about two years in federal prison, where those accused of federal crimes are typically held pretrial.
When Mohamud sued, Weyker was denied qualified immunity, the legal doctrine that makes it difficult to sue state and local government actors unless their alleged misconduct was "clearly established" in a prior court precedent. Yet the 8th Circuit in 2020 overturned that decision, citing Weyker's position on a federal task force. Government employees at the federal level receive an even more muscular immunity.
"Qualified immunity makes it very, very difficult to sue government officials," Patrick Jaicomo, an attorney at the Institute for Justice (I.J.), told me in 2021. "This makes it impossible." The U.S. Supreme Court further strengthened that protection in June 2022.
But previously unearthed documents on Weyker's cross-deputization call into question the notion that her activity was exclusively carried out under federal authority. "Weyker's deputization form listed her employer as the 'St. Paul Police Department' and explicitly disclaimed: 'This appointment does not constitute employment by the United States Marshals Service, the United States Department of Justice, or the United States Government,'" I.J. wrote in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, adding that the form "made clear that her federal authority was narrow."
In other words, Mohamud's attorneys have to convince the court that Weyker, in some sense, had a lower level of power than she previously claimed. It's a perverse concession to make—that elevated authority comes with an even lower standard—but it's the only one that, in our current system, gives them any shot at success.
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Don’t worry. The State will find another way to dodge this.
Like every corrupt country on Earth. Country. Like every country on Earth
What a perverse distortion of the constitution were living under where so much protection is given to those who blatantly violate a citizens rights.
Now do the j6 protesters that reason has been compleatly ignoring. Dive head first into a wood chipper billy
I even read about a prominent business man and politician who is facing hundreds of years in prison on trumped up charges. Mostly for things that aren’t even actual crimes. And his lawyers got indicted too. Some just for making phone calls to government officials.
Cool story, bra. Now send another $1,000 to that prominent business man and politician’s scam, er, defense fund.
“Now do the j6 protesters that reason has been compleatly ignoring.”
The protestors are small potatoes and ignoring them is the right thing to do. Reason is focusing on J6 rioters, failed insurrectionists and their court room drama.
Great article, Arthur. I appreciate your work, I see you’re now creating over $35,000 dollars each month simply by doing a simple job online writing inane comments on Reason!
Diversity is our strength!
“spent about two years in federal prison, where those accused of federal crimes are typically held pretrial”
Perhaps the courts can finally admit that the dissent of Brennan and Marshal was correct, and that this is unconstitutional. Not on Brennan and Marshal’s vague due-process grounds, but on the 9th Amendment right to bail in noncapital cases – there’s no indication the people gave up that right when they ratified the Constitution, and such inferences are forbidden by the 9th.
The current doctrine is that bail can’t be excessive (per the 8th Amendment), but in many cases it’s OK to set the bail at infinity. If that’s consistent with the 8th, then we need something more to make the right to bail a real thing.
Unfortunately for your idea, it’s judges who set bail,. and judicial immunity is FAPP absolute. It is hard to imagine any judge deciding otherwise, on grounds of obvious self-interest.
Youre using 2023 after 9 months retard. Explain the 2T deficit if spending is down.
Holy shit shrike.
Posted by JesseAZ – the idiot that doesn’t know what a “fiscal year” is.
How much has the U.S. government spent this year?
The U.S. government has spent $5.30 trillion in fiscal year 2023 to ensure the well-being of the people of the United States.
$5,302,102,522,743
Fiscal year-to-date (since October 2022) total updated monthly using the Monthly Treasury Statement (MTS) dataset.
https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/
So spending is down from the Trump year of $6.6 trillion with three weeks left in the fiscal year.
Child porn speader continues to defend child toucher Biden.
Pedos of a feather.
Wow, such a substantial comment. Really adds to the level of discourse here.
Your comment added what?
In what way was his comment inaccurate? Shreek posted CP links here. And Biden’s daughter wrote of being molested in the shower as a preteen by Joe Biden in her diary. Which was authenticated by the FBI.
Address that.
No she didn’t. She wrote: ‘I remember having sex with friends @ a young age; showers w/ my dad (probably not appropriate)’. Nothing about being molested in the shower. Quit lying.
A reminder that although Laursen acts pompous and pretentious, he trolled here for two years under a sock called White Knight, and harassed Ken constantly and tried to get others to join in.
You torched whatever was left of your credibility with your nonstop gaslighting about Year 2 of the Biden Economy.
If you had spent 2022 promoting a more reasonable message like OK, disappointment with the economy right now is entirely justified, but I predict things will get better in 2023 and 2024 then people might take you seriously. You just couldn’t do that though. The rabidly partisan Democrat always shines through.
#DefendBidenAtAllCosts
They would shine much more brightly deposited en masse in landfills.
I mean you can even read the reason article yesterday showing you are a liar lol.
At the very least, lawmakers should ask why federal spending has ballooned from $4.8 trillion to more than $6.2 trillion between 2018 and 2022, and how that increase in spending is driving deficits higher.
https://reason.com/2023/09/08/is-a-government-shutdown-better-than-more-reckless-borrowing/
I even posted total government spending for you already dumbass.
Also learn what Fiscal year-to-date (since October 2022) means dumdum. Spending ain’t over.
Wait. Does shrike think it is November already? Could explain his retardation.
Pluggo’s magical thinking.
The fiscal year ends last day of September, moron.
You’re the one who didn’t know about fiscal years as opposed to calendar years.
Is it the last day of September retard? Do you know about end of quarter billing?
No. I know about both. My statement was accurate in that the fiscal year wasn’t over.
You have now twice claimed your link was the final fiscal year deficit lol.
Yes, it’s September 30th. You lost any remaining shred of credibility you had. Although to be fair, that shred was minuscule.
“The fiscal year ends last day of September, moron.”
Speaking of morons, today’s the ninth.
At what point does the statue of limitations apply to civil cases, if at all?
The time limits are usually as short as or shorter than the time limits for criminal prosecutions. I can only hope that the courts will agree that arguing over qualified immunity, and long delays in discovery caused by the government lying about the case, refusing to turn over information on “active investigations”, etc., tolls the statute of limitations, so the clock is stopped until the plaintiff is finally allowed by the government to proceed.
IANAL. However, I believe that the Statute Of Limitations sets to time limit to FILE a lawsuit, but that you aren’t protected by a Statute Of Limitations if you manage to delay proceedings for a long-enough period of time.
Hopefully an actual lawyer can either confirm this or correct me if I’m wrong.
Government employees at the federal level receive an even more muscular immunity.*
Unless they worked for Trump.
Day 3 of the AG Paxton trial turned into a shit show by the liberals from Austin seeking to impeach him. The “whistleblowers” who went to the FBI admit that they never had any evidence and went to the FBI solely on their bald assertion. They admit on the stand Paxton never actually committed any crime they had evidence for.
The entire story shows the threats of political show trials the left had fully embraced.
https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/key-witness-says-staff-had-no-evidence-paxton-crime
Private legal firm that helped Fanni Willis draw up novel construction of law to go after 32 people was also soliciting the same defendants to represent then.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/08/fulton-county-prosecutors-law-firm-sends-uninvited-and-improper-mailer-to-republican-he-helped-indict/
Donnie Loves COVID Lockdowns!
Trump Claims DeSantis’ Covid Rules Were Too Harsh—But Also Blasts Florida’s High Death Rate
Sara Dorn
Forbes Staff
Former President Donald Trump accused Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) of failing to prevent Covid-19 deaths, while also making the contradictory suggestion that DeSantis unnecessarily closed Florida’s economy during the pandemic, in a post on Truth Social Tuesday that defies Trump’s previous praise of his 2024 rival for lifting Covid-19 restrictions before many other states.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2023/05/30/trump-claims-desantis-covid-rules-were-too-harsh-but-also-blasts-floridas-high-death-rate/?sh=7f02ceef7f19
Remind everyone what happened to your original SPB account? Oh, that’s right, it was banned for posting links to dark web child porn.
Trump’s handling of Covid was a clusterfuck. He should’ve fought harder against the measures being pushed by the RINOs and Soros Democrats.
Because Donnie’s natural instincts align with Democrats. The clusterfuck was due to his trying to save his ass for reelection.
He is a populist now. He looks to the mob and appeals accordingly. The lockdowns were popular before they became tedious.
The lockdowns were popular ….
Amongst the lazy.
“The lockdowns were popular ….
Amongst the lazy.”
And the teachers’ unions….but I repeat myself.
They were popular amongst your fellow Democrats and their Billionaire overlords.
Governor Lujan Grisham says her duty to uphold her oath to the constitution is “not absolute”.
Also;
– She also confuses automatic and semi-automic hand guns
– And says that legal CCL holders “maybe they should be arrested”
“We’re not coming for your guns.”
We are so close to the tipping point now.
Could get interesting:
https://twitter.com/nmlinguaphile/status/1700558960766730380
What about the doctrine of taqiya, the Muslim belief under sharia law that it’s okay to lie if it’s for a good cause? Does this woman believe that it’s okay for her to lie about the cop but it’s not okay for the cop to lie about her? Sounds like the sort of confused double-think you’d expect out of a woman, which is why women are afforded no rights a man must respect under Islam. This woman should be severely beaten for opening her dirty whore mouth and, if she shows no repentance for her grievous error, stoned to death. Does not the Prophet (pbuh) command us so?
Which is why the brilliant Sam Harris called Islam (the most conservative of belief systems) the “Mother Lode of Bad Ideas”.
Three-quarters of Muslim voters say they cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, and two-thirds of U.S. Muslims overall say they disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president.
Conservative indeed. How do you know so little about everything? Their entire culture is built around corrupt practices, which is why they love democrats. Go to any Muslim country and you will grease palms for business. Democrats are the representation of that.
1 conservative /kənˈsɚvətɪv/ adjective
Britannica Dictionary definition of CONSERVATIVE
.
[more conservative; most conservative] : believing in the value of established and traditional practices in politics and society : relating to or supporting political conservatism
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/conservative
So your interpretation of views trumps their voting reality. Lol.
Never stop being retarded shrike.
Most people agree that the Middle East needs to be liberalized. This means womens rights, secularism, tolerance, gay rights, democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.
You know, the same things you American conservatives resist.
Define liberalized. Coming from you it seems to mean socialism, pedophilia, child sterilization, corruption, weaponization of the law…
What is liberal about those values shrike?
Which party seeks a command economy? That is not liberal in the classical sense. Yet that is the party you defend.
I get facts don’t matter to you, only Act Blue narratives… but your arguments are so sophomoric as to be meaningless.
Who the fuck are most people to forcibly change other people’s culture?
You hate Arabs.
It fits right in with Pluggo’s racism and misogyny.
To be fair, those ARE his guiding principles.
.does one of Soros’s other minions come to your residence amd funnel literal shit down your throat?
Wouldn’t surprise me if they did, you fucking Marxist pedophile.
Elmer – one of Sevo’s lowly cumstains.
Big words from a sock farmer like Shrike.
Republicans get major boost as ‘fired up’ young men lean right in record numbers
The Democratic party chose to become the party of catamites, spinsters, AWFLs and alphabet sex cult sociopaths and deliberately drove young men, minorities and the working class away.
Poor JFeels. Maybe he should get another booster.
Boosted People More Likely Than Unvaccinated to Be Infected: Study
Find a breakdown here.
Which is a natural conclusion if one understands the immune system. Natural immune system may target one or more structures of a virus to fight it off giving protection to various mutations. Forcing everyone to focus their immune systems on a single aspect of a virus removes broad immunity against variations.
Just read the study. Basically, there’s no statistical difference, (natural immunity is the same or slightly higher), and the sun rises in the East.
Somehow, I expect no apology from the folks who were trying to mandate vaccination, or the assholes who were checking vaccine cards to get into concerts all the way into the spring last year, excluding anyone who might have had antibodies from a natural infection.
Snark aside, it was a good conclusion to a study that was clear on its limitations, and that actually had a group of completely unvaccinated people, all in the same environment, to compared to people who were boosted with the latest vaccine.
Civil rights investigation opened against Christopher Rufo for… misgendering.
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/09/department-of-education-investigating-christopher-rufo-for-civil-rights-violation-of-misgendering-n2163604
Sticks and stones will break my bones,
But words will put you in jail.
The irony is that Rufo’s accusers are the ones actually misgendering, not Rufo, as Yoleidy Rosario-Hernandez is female and ze/zir are nonsense words.
Zir civil rights should end where proper grammar begins.
“Proper” grammar? Oh, do not get the prescriptive vs descriptive grammarians going on this one. Just one more holy war to add to the uncivil discourse.
The Reason staff obviously has the day off, there’s nary a sockpuppet to be found!
Xi is done with the world order:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/xi-jinping-is-done-with-the-established-world-order/ar-AA1gtcNM
Robert L. Peters’ presidential legacy will be twofold:
1) The predident who destroyed the U.S. dollar, and
2) The president who united China, Russia, Saudia Arabia, India, Brazil, and many other major countries together against America.
P.S. impeach Fauci, Garland, Mayorkas, and “president” Robert L. Peters.
Are you one of those economic cretins who favours both a strong dollar and a trade surplus?
Explain how that isn’t possible without relying on tropes and using the words “everyone knows” as explanation.
A strong currency means that imported goods are cheaper to buy for domestic buyers and exported goods are more expensive to sell to foreign buyers. It is possible in the theoretical case of a country with a unique and desirable good for sale that the currency is strong and it runs a trade surplus but in practice in real economies not only does it not happen but the presence of a trade deficit is often enough the evidence for a currency’s being strong.
There are other factors involved in FX policy – desirability of/need for foreign capital, for example but I have no intention of providing a treatise.
Does oil fall into the unique and desirable good category?
Civil suits? The officer should be doing 10 years in the federal pen, for violating her civil rights under color of law.
“Previously unearthed,” or previously UN-unearthed? See article, NOT well-written.
Weyker has already been busted down to property crimes – where law enforcement careers go to die.
The real problem has always been these multi-jurisdictional task forces that create an amorphous entity of State enforcement agents who lack clear oversight, procedures, and application of law.
Just set a QI standard that’s applicable to all law enforcement agents.
This is exactly what we have come to expect from Rethuglican dominated shitholes.
Wait, what?
Now people are blindly targeting cops! Sad enough!
She should have sued under state tort law, on the theory that since federal law has not been authorized to authorize unconstitutional acts, it cannot terminate the force of state tort law over the tortfeasing individual where the act in question is not merely illegal but unconstitutional.
Qualified Immunity is a crime. Heather Weyker should face the charges in count and if found guilty server time in prison.
“A Cop Jailed Her for 2 Years on Fake Charges…..”
A cop can jail no one. A cop can lie, intimidate, falsify etc.
A juty can reommend.
But only a judge jail. – by sentencing.
A cop can lie to the judge – and they often do, with very little chance of being prosecuted for perjury if they are caught. It’s pretty difficult for the defense to even find out if the cop accusing their client is a known liar – the prosecutor is supposed to turn all information like that over to the defense, but lawyers also lie and prosecutors work hard at avoiding learning things like this. Then if the prosecutor is caught, judges overturn convictions without naming the unethical lying sociopaths responsible for the false conviction.
What the cop in question was probably pissed about and willing to go a little rogue was that Somali community in MN has gotten away with incredible misdeeds. They ran a scam to defraud daycare and Headstart programs to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars of MN taxpayers funds. There is currently a 49 person lawsuit of Somali people that took hundreds of millions in COVID relief funds, the largest investigation yet the Feds have discovered.
Did the entire “Somali community” do this? Did this woman do this? If she did, then charge her with _that_ crime, don’t make up a different one.
Or if the cop thought that because _some_ Somalis are criminals, all Somalis are criminals and it’s OK to frame them, he is unfit to be a cop or hold any other government job, and probably his supervisors and whoever hired him are also unfit.
You might be at the wrong website. Try The Atlantic if you’re looking for supporters of collective punishment.
Why is it surprising that when one puts out bird seed, the birds show up to get it? Birds of all types.
So Somalis are just another form of Gypsy grifters?
“…a police officer who jailed her as a teenager for two years on false charges…” A city police officer can only put someone in a city/county jail, they can’t take them to a federal prison. Only a federal LE agency can charge someone with a federal crime and have them arrested and placed in federal custody. And a local cop (even a federal agent) does not have the power to keep someone in prison (or even in a local jail) for two years. That has to be a judge denying release for some reason, and there must be a federal prosecutor somewhere in the mix. Something is missing here.