News SPD Settles Another Brutality Case
posted by February 13 at 16:33 PM
onThe Seattle Police Department has settled another police brutality case out of court.
SPD will pay Aaron Claxton $20,000 for an incident in August 2006, where Claxton was repeatedly tasered by plainclothes officers—from one of SPD’s elite anti-crime teams—inside his home. Officers claimed Claxton—a 22-year-old Boys and Girls Club counselor—had been speeding, and failed to stop at a stop sign near his home in North Seattle. Claxton was also charged with obstruction, but the case was dropped because of, according to court records, a “lack of proof.”
While Claxton settled for a relatively small amount, his suit is yet another example of a lack of confidence in our city’s police accountability system. As I’ve said before, if SPD won’t discipline officers, people are going to continue to take their claims of officer misconduct to court, rather than deal with SPD’s slow and ineffective method of policing its officers.
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Tasered by plainclothes cops in his home for running a stop sign?
Did they have a warrant?
He could have legally shot them ... and no jury would have convicted him.
Really?
You can shoot cops who do not threaten deadly force, if there is some defect in their procedures, or their warrant is flawed or something?
Wow. That will certainly help us recruit those extra 49 cops we need.
I'm sorry I haven't been following the cop news, but can I ask: are the cops who are not on the Anti-Crime Team not anti-crime?
PS: "Your honor! Not guilty by reason of I read it in a Will in Seattle post!"
How would you know they're cops?
If someone broke in your house ... just saying.
I may have missed it in the weekend caucus craziness, but did you see that SPD actually fired an officer last Thursday?
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/350715_badcop9.html
yeah I would call busting into someones house in plan close and assaulting them a "defect"
people died for Americans to have civil liberties. Start acting like it.
@ 3—
The Anti-Crime Teams are plainclothes officers in unmarked vehicles that deal with the street level crime (drugs, prostitution, etc) that Vice and Gangs can't/won't.
@ #6: did you mean "plainclothes?" If not, your post makes not a lot of sense.
I would call busting into someones house in plan close and assaulting them a "defect"
Thanks for clarifying that, GrammarNazi!
Actually, people have died - on video - from being tasered multiple times - just up in Vancouver BC ... it was national media there.
But seriously, no jury would convict him if he had.
Do these payments come out of the SPD budget? They should.
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