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Baton Bob Receives $20,000 Settlement For Coerced Facebook Post
McGruber writes: After arresting him during a June 2013 street performance, Atlanta Police Officers forced costumed street performer "Baton Bob" to make a pro-police statement on his Facebook page before they would allow him to be released on bond. Social media coverage of the incident triggered a six-month internal police investigation into the arrest. Atlanta Police Officer H.J. Davis was given a one-day suspension, then resigned from the Atlanta Police department a few weeks later. Atlanta Police Lt. Jeffrey Cantin received a five-day suspension for "violating responsibilities of a supervisor".
Baton Bob also filed a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing that officers made a wrongful arrest that violated, well, nearly every constitutional right you can name. Those included Jamerson's "right to free speech, his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, his right to remain silent while in custody, his right to be free from compelled speech, his right to counsel, and his right to privacy." The City of Atlanta's legal department reviewed the case and determined that a $20,000 settlement would "be in the best interest of the city" rather than fighting the claims in court.
Baton Bob also filed a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing that officers made a wrongful arrest that violated, well, nearly every constitutional right you can name. Those included Jamerson's "right to free speech, his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, his right to remain silent while in custody, his right to be free from compelled speech, his right to counsel, and his right to privacy." The City of Atlanta's legal department reviewed the case and determined that a $20,000 settlement would "be in the best interest of the city" rather than fighting the claims in court.
Yeah what a bunch of fucking NIGGERS COONS JIGABOOS PORCH-MONKEYS .
I said the FORBIDDEN WORDS. Oh noes! It is now your duty to mod me down. You are a terrible horrible human being if you have a sense of humor, are mature enough not to be easily offended by harmless words, and mod this up just to piss off the infantile narrow-minded easily-offended douchebags who keep trying to tell others what they should say and think, how they should live, how they should feel, etc. Yes you absolutely have to mod this down, for king and country! The king is political correctness and the country used to believe in free speech and celebrate it even if it was offensive. If it makes you feel better: HONKEYS! CRACKAS! WHITE DEVILS!! PALE MOTHERFUCKERS!!! Of course they don't just cancel out, since white people think getting upset over words you read on the internet is ridiculous and gives too much power to random strangers.
The tyrants who really run things want you to think of EVERYTHING that ever happens to ANYONE in terms of group identity. They definitely don't want you to be individuals. That doesn't make you so easy to control, no not at all. You must be pigeonholed by type. What type, that doesn't matter. But you must be a type and have lots of other people be another type. Then you are easy to divide and conquer. Tribalism at its best and most exploitable, sort of like a buffer overflow in the human psyche. Tyrants figured this shit out long ago. So did advertisers. Anyway why are you reading this? You have some down-modding to do. Can't have truth in too high of a concentration, now can we? Makes the sheeple nervous and uncomfortable. Questioning the beliefs they have been taught to hold sacred (and asking who benefits from them thinking so) is not something they are used to, no not at all. I read the Constitution and I couldn't find a "right to always be comfortable with the facts of life" nor "right to never ever be offended even though that depends on my CHOICE to be offended but I'm too un-enlightened to realize that" anywhere in the damn thing.