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Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Public Strip Search Costs Ex-Oakland Cop $40K

A former Oakland police officer must pay $40,000 out of his own pocket to two men who were illegally strip-searched in public and have already been awarded at least $100,000 apiece in damages.

Spencer Troy Lucas and Kirby Bradshaw had their pants pulled down on a busy West Oakland street in 2005 by police after then-Officer Ingo Mayer stopped them for no lawful reason, U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel wrote in an August ruling after a bench trial.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What the hell is wrong with Oakland cops and cops in general?

Anonymous said...

It's ok. The authorities there gave the men free one way tickets to Dulles Airport.