Re: Bad Cop, No Donut! Lawsuit filed against abusive cops

On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 21:18:15 -0400, Frank Ney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/138545_suit08.html
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>A 62-year-old heart patient who says Pierce County deputies beat him after he
>left the hospital has filed a federal suit charging that the Key Peninsula
>detachment of deputies is a corrupt band of thugs whose criminal rampages are
>being covered up at the highest levels of county government. 
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>Frank Ney  N4ZHG  WV/EMT-B  NRA(L) GOA CCRKBA JPFO ProvNRA LPWV
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In his effort to smear the police, Frank leaves this out:

Sheriff's Department attorney Craig Adams says the lawsuit by Pedersen
and his son, Bjarne, makes a mockery of the judicial system. Internal
affairs investigators with the Sheriff's Department reviewed
Pedersen's accusations and dropped them as unfounded, Adams said. 

The FBI, too, has investigated the matter and found it had no merit,
he said.



Plummer and Davis have filed their own suit in Pierce County Superior
Court, alleging that the Pedersens and an associate have maliciously
defamed and libeled them. The deputies want unspecified damages and
restraining orders against the men to stop them from "disseminating
any untrue written or verbal publications."



Troyer, the department spokesman, added that the supporting affidavits
may be the work of disgruntled citizens with their own beefs against
cops. 

"That area on Key Peninsula has a long history of anti-government
sentiment," Troyer said. "It was a free love society. Some of them
even tried to outlaw law enforcement."

Plummer and Davis are veteran officers whose personnel files show
they've had no complaints sustained against them, Troyer added. 

Both continue to patrol the Key Peninsula.