Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Very expensive handcuffs
Recently a town of Palmer settled a lawsuit with a deaf person who was arrested and cuffed by the local police. Though he was first arrested, the charges were later dropped, and the deaf man filed a federal lawsuit claiming that Palmer Town had arrested him illegally, applied excessive force, and of course violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. Later the case was settled for $ 700,000. That was the price of those handcuffs the town had to pay for ...
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