18 year old black student awarded $1 by Jury for warrantless raid

[awesome31312]

An Indiana Jury has decided to award an 18 year old black high school student $1 in damages, after he was unlawfully arrested, choked, handcuffed, and beat in a mistaken identity case after police officers entered his home without a warrant.

In 2012, Indiana police entered the boy's home without a warrant, shaking him awake and punching him six times, before tasering him and placing him in the backseat of a police car. Handcuffed, Deshawn Franklin demanded to know what he had done wrong. The police officers responded by telling him he had fit the physical description of someone they were looking for. Specifically, the description was "Dreadlocks". Despite being a popular choice of hair among black youth in America, he was taken into custody.

The police later realized their error, and promptly released him from the vehicle. The jury agreed that a Fourth Amendment violation had occurred, and decided to award him $1 USD in damages (0.0017 BTC).

In addition, the city insists that the Franklin family pay $1,500 in legal expenses.

The police department investigated themselves and cleared themselves of any wrongdoing.





 

[BADecker]

He won! Grab the case number and run with it. Why? Because when it happens to you, you have precedent, and the winnings will get bigger as time goes by.

[awesome31312]

He won! Grab the case number and run with it. Why? Because when it happens to you, you have precedent, and the winnings will get bigger as time goes by.

Lol, appreciate you seeing the positive side of things.

[BADecker]

He won! Grab the case number and run with it. Why? Because when it happens to you, you have precedent, and the winnings will get bigger as time goes by.

Lol, appreciate you seeing the positive side of things.

Shock! I didn't know you could even see positive things.   

[otrkid70]

Wow he got screwed over! I wonder if the same outcome would have happened if he were white?

[awesome31312]

Wow he got screwed over! I wonder if the same outcome would have happened if he were white?

The receiving $1 in punitive damages? Probably. The warrantless raid and the choking, handcuffing? Probably not. Also, if the victim were a white college student, he would be making front page news on every media source out there.

[designerusa]

An Indiana Jury has decided to award an 18 year old black high school student $1 in damages, after he was unlawfully arrested, choked, handcuffed, and beat in a mistaken identity case after police officers entered his home without a warrant.

In 2012, Indiana police entered the boy's home without a warrant, shaking him awake and punching him six times, before tasering him and placing him in the backseat of a police car. Handcuffed, Deshawn Franklin demanded to know what he had done wrong. The police officers responded by telling him he had fit the physical description of someone they were looking for. Specifically, the description was "Dreadlocks". Despite being a popular choice of hair among black youth in America, he was taken into custody.

The police later realized their error, and promptly released him from the vehicle. The jury agreed that a Fourth Amendment violation had occurred, and decided to award him $1 USD in damages (0.0017 BTC).

In addition, the city insists that the Franklin family pay $1,500 in legal expenses.

The police department investigated themselves and cleared themselves of any wrongdoing.





 

Shame on united states' law system. i dont think that guy arrested faultily, on the contrary, he was arrested on purpose to insult his race for sure. as for his award, he deserves 1 million dollars not 1 dollar..

[bryant.coleman]

Wow he got screwed over! I wonder if the same outcome would have happened if he were white?

The receiving $1 in punitive damages? Probably. The warrantless raid and the choking, handcuffing? Probably not. Also, if the victim were a white college student, he would be making front page news on every media source out there.

If the victim was white then no one would knew about it. The media covered this news, only because the victim was from a minority. Warrantless raids happen all the time in the United States. However, very few could afford to file legal suits against the cops. Anyway... the victim must be happy that he got a favorable verdict. 

[awesome31312]

Wow he got screwed over! I wonder if the same outcome would have happened if he were white?

The receiving $1 in punitive damages? Probably. The warrantless raid and the choking, handcuffing? Probably not. Also, if the victim were a white college student, he would be making front page news on every media source out there.

If the victim was white then no one would knew about it.

Because it would not happen if he were white.

[NewBet]

Actually the Franklin family get paid $18 dollar in total , $1 paid by each defendant.
They did been offered US$15,000 to settle the case but the Franklin family's lawyer think they should be award around US$100,000 and US$300,000.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/world/innocent-man-awarded-18-after-punched-and-tasered-2016083121

Wow he got screwed over! I wonder if the same outcome would have happened if he were white?

The receiving $1 in punitive damages? Probably. The warrantless raid and the choking, handcuffing? Probably not. Also, if the victim were a white college student, he would be making front page news on every media source out there.

If the victim was white then no one would knew about it.

Because it would not happen if he were white.

It's quite a racist , why there still such of racist people in this century?
The Franklin family should fight for their right.

[mOgliE]

Wtf ?
I mean I agree sometimes American receive millions for nothing but... here there is something really wrong with 1$ only Oo

[dx5]

This has to be a satire story.

[zenitzz]

I guess there's nothing wrong with what was done by the child, it's just a reaction of self-defense when an unknown person entered the place.