WTH? Cops Unconstitutional Conduct Brings $1 in Damages
How not to build trust with the public at all let alone minorities.
$1.
That’s the price the City of South Bend has been ordered to pay for the unconstitutional conduct of three police officers.
A jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Fort Wayne last week quietly rendered the verdict in a civil lawsuit filed by the Franklin family.
“I think in the environment that’s in America now where police officers have been gunned down in the street, I think the jury was sending a message of support for the police officers,” said Mario Sims, Pastoral Counselor to the Franklin family. “Now somewhere between supporting the police officers and the constitution, they forgot that there’s a family whose constitutional rights were violated. The message you’re sending by awarding them a nominal award of a dollar is essentially, so what? So what that sworn police officers broke into your home and punched your son and tased them.”