Star Tribune (22 Sept 2009): Golden Valley police settle suit in Taser arrest for $200K
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What started as a dinner out with her husband and friends in downtown Minneapolis ended with a Plymouth woman handcuffed, on the receiving end of a Taser shot and barefoot in a jail cell for at least three hours. On Monday, Sandra Brown's lawsuit from the Oct. 8, 2005, incident was settled with an agreement from Golden Valley to pay her $200,000 for her federal civil rights and excessive-force claims. Brown, 57, said she suffered bruises on her wrists and arm and went on anti-anxiety medicine for the first time in her life after the incident.
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The respondents' (police officers') attorney did the usual strut & puff about how there was no admission of guilt & how they would have had an "aggressive" defense had it gone to trial, to which the plaintiff's attorney replied:
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"$200,000 sounds like an admission of misconduct to me. Most police brutality cases are settled for a nuisance value of $2,500."
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With regard to your "aggressive defense", I really wish you had put your money where your mouth was.
The last bozo that did that in a Golden Valley abuse case a couple years earlier got his clients saddled with a $1.15M judgment when they could have settled for a lot less.
What reportedly transpired?
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Scared for her husband, she called 911 to try to determine why her husband was restrained and in custody. Golden Valley police officer Rob Zarrett walked to her car and "screamed" at her, ordering her off the phone, according to the lawsuit. She told him she was on the phone with dispatch and he took her phone, threw it and used his Taser gun to "shock and/or disable" her, the suit said.
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Read the
whole Star Tribune article. It's quite an eye opener.
11-30-2011, 09:49 PM
Golden Valley, MN: Golden Valley police settle suit in Taser arrest for $200K
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