Reply to MC police pick up ESS 5 year old; harass & assault him

Forum Index » Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS)

Reply to "MC police pick up ESS 5 year old; harass & assault him"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find this really confusing.  It's hard to know what happened.  I am always suspicious when there is just one side, especially when that side is the lawyers representing one person.

One one hand, the kid ran away from school.  One of the things that the article objects to seems to be that the police picked up the kid, put him in the car and drove him back to school.  To me, that's what I'd expect.  The police's first job in that circumstance is definitely to get the kid back to the adults who are caring for him.  Yes, being "placed in a squad car" (one of the things they object to) is scary, but I'm not sure how else they should get the child back to school

It sounds like some of the things they said while they were doing it were out of line, but honestly without the other side [b]it's just hard to say.[/b]
[/quote]

Quoting here “ the complaint was [b]written based on body camera footage[/b] of the incident from one officer. The other officer’s camera was not on, they said.”
So in MoCo their attorneys aren’t savvy enough to settle cases that are cut and dried and will certainly bring a storm of negative publicity if they play out publicly in court?
That’s a wrap! [/quote]

The quote was written by the attorney, who claims to have seen the body camera footage.  The journalist did not see the body camera footage.  Big difference.[/quote]

Until footage is presented in court you mean. [/quote]

Sure, but that footage could support either side, or be open to differing interpretations.  I'm certainly not going to take an attorney's description of what the body camera footage shows as gospel given his obvious self-interest in the matter.[/quote]
At any time in the last year the police and MCPS could have come forward and presented "their side". They chose not to and there is a strong chance you will never hear "their side" because what happens next is that in the county will negotiate a settlement before this case goes to depositions. [/quote]

I admittedly have not seen the BWC footage in this case, but if this was as cut and dried as police threatening and screaming at a terrified 5 year old, this would have been settled before the suit was filed.  I am not saying there is any justification to threaten a 5 year old, but there is more to this story if it hasn’t already settled out of public view.

-a civil defense attorney[/quote]

You must not work in moco[/quote][/quote]

Are you saying the MoCo attorneys aren’t savvy enough to try and negotiate an early settlement of a cut and dried case of police baselessly yelling at and threatening a 5 year old that will certainly lead to negative publicity if allowed to proceed through the court system?[/quote]

No I’m saying they are smarter and know how to get top $$ out of the county.[/quote]

What I will say is this, when there are cases in which the defense (county) is going to be a giant loser and take a beating if a suit is filed, every reasonable effort is made to settle the case before a suit is filed. So either the mother’s settlement demand was completely outrageous, or there is more to this story than meets the eye. You would be surprised at what goes into court complaints that clearly won’t hold up after a case goes through discovery.[/quote]
I think you are making assumptions based on facts not in evidence. Part of that is presuming that MoCo has competent counsel and makes wise decisions regarding litigation. I have a friend that was hit on his bike by a MoCo employee driving a MoCo vehicle. They were not seriously injured so they did not pursue the matter. 6 months later they were contacted by the county requesting compensation for damage to the vehicle. As a result of that, they got a lawyer and sued the county and won a 5 figure award in settlement.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics