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Boston pays to settle another cell-phone case, lawyer says
By adamg on Tue, 06/05/2012 - 7:47pm
Boston has paid a man arrested while videoing police in Roxbury $33,000 to settle his civil-rights lawsuit, the man's lawyer says.
In his suit, filed last fall in US District Court in Boston, Maury Paulino alleged he was punched to the ground and kneed in the face when he began videoing police outside the B-2 station after the friend he'd come to bail out had words with officers and was re-arrested.
In March, the city paid $170,000 to a local lawyer who'd filed a similar suit after he was arrested videoing police making an arrest on the Common. In that case, a federal appeals court had rejected requests from officers to dismiss the case, saying members of the public had a fundamental right to record officers in public places as long as they did not interfere with any police activity.
Via BostInno.
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Forget working!
I'm going out to record some police!
But remember
According to Pete, BPD officers are never wrong. The city just settles suits like this to piss off the union. Or something.
Pete's home weeping
over the failure of the Walker recall petition.
Y'know, I'm a liberal New Deal Democrat at heart, and I hate pretty much everything the Koch brothers stand for, and yet, there's a piece of me, somewhere in the back of my head, that looks at Walker's victory, and looks at the smug, entitled, BPD, and thinks, "today, you guys are just a tiny bit less invincible than you were yesterday...."
Not just you
Obama would have won WI in a "landslide" yesterday even while Walker warded off the recall. While I'm not totally against recalls, that recall did make me a bit uneasy. Especially since Dem's were unable to articulate a solid reason why a recall was necessary, and just flat out went about it in a very stupid manor.
They also still couldn't motivate their side to turn out, turnout was lower than 2008 again.
Dems messaging is super weak. They're spineless, they aren't trying to win over more minds, and they're afraid of what they stand for. They also are not finding ways to motivate voters to show up.
It really did show you just how weak the unions really are now. And most of that weakness stems from the problems you hate, and unions becoming more self serving and insular; and less worried about blue collar workers everywhere. It's their own damn fault for not building the movement, and instead of turning their focus inward and protecting their own. People look to them, are not part of them, and don't like that. Wheres the union protecting Walmart workers, or the plants in TN, or McD's workers, ect? Why should they give a crap about teachers unions that won't fight for them?
Reduction to a larger problem....
This inward-focused protection seems to be happening across the board:
Corporate management represents its own interest rather than the interests of shareholders (e.g., ginormous compensation to executives who fail to perform)
Congress represents a narrow set of interests rather than the interests of the American public.
Union management narrowly protects its own interest, in some cases in diametric opposition to the interests of the members.
Trustees of foundations and managers of nonprofits serve their own interests rather than the interests of the larger organization.
We seem to be seeing (and tacitly accepting) a declining level of stewardship across-the-board. I don't understand the core underlying reason, but I don't like what it says about who we've become.
apathy and comfort on both sides
Go to a teachers/police union meeting in 1980 and there will be 2,000 people there. Have one today and you'll be lucky if 25 people show up.
I also think people have become comfortable with their union jobs a little too much as well.
Still, no one is forcing towns and cities to sign contracts, and for the most part taxpayers are pretty satisfied with their tax rate (save Stevil). This satisfaction reflects in low voter turnout as well. Hell, even prop 2.5 overides get low turnouts. These overides should have 99% turnout.
Nope, never said that.
This guy should have gotten more.