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Subscribe to RSSTaxpayers in Oakland, Calif., will dole out $4.6 million to 39 men who were illegally strip-searched in public by police, according to reports.
The Oakland City Council approved the settlement on Tuesday night, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The men, who were searched between 2002 and 2009, had sued after they had their pants pulled down in public on city streets, the newspaper reported. A year ago, a federal judge ruled the searches unconstitutional, and ordered a $1 million payout to two other men strip-searched in public.
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Council members Ignacio De La Fuente and Jane Brunner voted against the settlement, the newspaper reported. De La Fuente called it "absolutely the wrong thing to do," the newspaper said.
An attorney for the men said that the city had "finally acknowledged the wrongs done to these men," the newspaper reported.
The Oakland Police Department's strip-search policy, however, is still in question. Michael Haddad, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said that "we will have to take them back to court" unless the strip-search policy is made constitutional and lawful, the newspaper reported.
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Government should abide by the laws first...otherwise..? We took Saddam out because he violated people's freedom??
...otherwise..these crooks just look like idiots to the law-biding citizens...or worse?
Hi, I am Pigotry
Eric Holder has announced the DOJ will need millions more to investigate other valedictorians for possible ties to this criminal conspiracy.
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The 3 plantiffs deserve to be compensated. "Stripped and Searched in public?" Unless these 3 men were an immediate danger to those around them, there is no justification for this kind of public humiliation. The police actions were unlawful. Hopefully, these victims have been awarded large settlements. The city and other counties that engage in such conduct should stop needless victimization.
One question, were they wearing their pants half down anyway? It is Oakland, they may not have a case.
Half the people in Oakland wears their pants on their thighs and you can see their underware. How many times to you see these guys with pants 12 inches below their waste. it's against the law to tell them to pull up their pants. When you pull them down for them they get millions...
What a country!