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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good lord this thread is depressing. Lots of excuses being made for appalling behavior by police. Unless the attorneys are literally lying about statements made on video by police (in which case they will be sanctioned), there are no valid excuses.[/quote]

And your post exemplifies why it is reasonable to not jump to conclusions.  The lawyers could be lying and it isn't unheard of to see lawyers sanctioned for that.  It is also quite possible -- probably more likely than them outright lying -- that they are interpreting facts in the light most favorable to their client.  That doesn't mean that those same facts (and the same video) could be reasonably interpreted differently by others.  It is not at all uncommon for videos (and audio in video) to be ambiguous (because of what is and is not shown, and the quality of audio and video) and open to various interpretations.

I don't understand why you and others are so offended that we should wait until the evidence comes out, or at least a summary of the evidence is presented by someone objective, and not jump to absolute conclusions of who is right or wrong based on nothing but the description of events by one parties lawyer.

In any other context, would you be so willing to assume the guilt of the accused?  I doubt you would generally be willing to assume the guilt of someone accused by the police merely on account of the accusation.  You should completely change your worldview and your admiral belief in innocence until proven guilty and the possibility of biased reporting because the accused here is a cop.[/quote]

In no universe is it okay to scream in a 5 year old's face, not if you are a parent but certainly not if you are a police officer in a county that constantly talks about all their deescalation training. That is what the complaint alleges a police officer did. So either the lawyer is lying and will get sanctioned, or the police's conduct was horrific. There is no alternative reasonable interpretation that does not amount to the lawyers lying about what is on the tape. They either yelled in his face, or they didn't.
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The lawyer will not get sanctioned.  Be real.[/quote]

Right, people on this board seem to have no idea what it would actually take for the lawyer to get sanctioned for something in the complaint.  For there to be even a remote chance of sanctions, there would have to be absolutely clear that the lawyer [i]knew[/i] (which means more than knew means in lay contexts) that what he wrote was categorically false and there was no way the lawyer could contend that he thought it was a reasonable interpretation of what occurred when looking at things in the most favorable light for his client.

The threat of potential sanctions in no way makes a lawyer turn from advocate to reasonably neutral or reliable reporter of what happened.[/quote]

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