Friday, April 29, 2005

Pepper Spray Verdict In

The jury decides law enforcement used excessive force when using pepper spray against the anti logging protesters. Unbelievable? Probably not, as the plaitiffs were almost assured a biased, if not intellectually challenged, jury since it was in San Francisco. We should probably be surprised the other two trials ended up deadlocked. Still, I don't see how anyone could watch the entire film of the event(s) (which I have) and decided that was excessive force.

On the upside, the plaintiffs were only awarded damages of a dollar each and it might be that the defense attorneys will be hard pressed to get any of the million or so dollars they "spent" on the case back. I hope they get stiffed but we'll have to wait and see.

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