Lawsuits

Big soda, SNAP riots and more Portland waterwars + this day in history w/the Magna Carta and our song of the day by Ben Watt on your Morning Monarchy for June 15, 2016.

A man who was on the phone with his mother when a Seattle police officer pepper sprayed him as he walked by will receive a $100,000 settlement.
Jesse Hagopian, a high school history teacher, had just given a speech during a Martin Luther King, Jr. event last year when Seattle police officer Sandra DeLaFuente pepper sprayed him, ordering him to get back, even though he was already walking away from her and was never that close to begin with.

Secret channels, usage caps and traffic apps + this day in history w/Operation Opera and our song of the day by Goodbye Heart on your Morning Monarchy for June 7, 2016.

Fighting fluoride, stoned sheep and depressed fish + this day in history w/Scotch whisky and our song of the day by Beach Slang on your Morning Monarchy for June 1, 2016.

Racist laundry ads, Marxist music videos and violent Legos + this day in history w/'Dragon Quest' and our song of the day by Kris Orlowski on your Morning Monarchy for May 27, 2016.

A Detroit woman filed a lawsuit last week after Detroit cops serving a search warrant entered her home looking for marijuana shot and killed her three passive dogs, then turned to her and said, “I should have killed you, too.”
“They went around and killed them – like a death squad,” said Chris Olson, Smith’s attorney in an interview with the New York Daily News.

Nobody was surprised when the California cop who pulled a gun on a man last year because he was recording was cleared of any wrongdoing.
After all, police will always protect their own – even if the evidence against them is crisp and clear on video that their officer acted like a complete thug.

California cops pulled a man over in May 2014, suspecting him of driving drunk, but he ended up dying in their custody.
But the Hayward Police Department, which regular sends out media updates about homicides and missing persons – never publicly acknowledged the death of James Greer.
And the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office never opened an investigation into the death of the 46-year-old man.

More Hollywood Hillary, superhero accountability and the concert for dogs + this day in history w/1st FM station and our song of the day by the Stone Roses on your Morning Monarchy for May 13, 2016.

A New York woman who had been arrested for driving under the influence ended up brutally attacked by several sheriff’s deputies, a surveillance video clearly shows.
But that did not stop a jury from finding her guilty of assaulting the deputies.
Nevertheless, Jennifer Merrow is suing the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, despite the fact that a conviction makes it much harder to win that lawsuit.
But as her attorney says, the video speaks for itself.