Public intoxication. He won't get shit.
When did the cop accuse him of being drunk? When did the cop threaten to arrest him for being drunk? Public intoxication is an after the fact let me cover my ass charge. Remember the case of a Black man Chris Lollie in Minnesota? He was accused of loitering/trespassing and was tased and arrested for not showing ID. All charges were later dropped and he was awarded 100,000 dollars. The cops were found to have done nothing wrong. Like the guys in this video Lollie also recorded his encounter.
St. Paul will pay $100,000 to Chris Lollie, tased in skyway arrest
A still image from a skyway surveillance video released Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, by St. Paul police related to the controversial arrest of Chris Lollie. Lollie, 28, of St. Paul, recorded his encounter with police officers Jan. 31, 2014, and posted the cellphone video to YouTube on Aug. 26.
The city of St. Paul will pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man over a January 2014 incident in which he was arrested and shocked with a Taser in a downtown skyway area, according to city council documents filed Thursday.
Chris Lollie (Courtesy photo)
The confrontation unfolded after a security guard at the First National Bank Building told Chris Lollie he was sitting in a private area in the skyway and had to move. Lollie said the area wasn’t marked as such.
Police approached him and asked him who he was. Lollie said he didn’t have to tell them because he had done nothing wrong. In a cellphone video he recorded of the incident, he said he was being targeted because he was black.
Officers eventually stunned and arrested him. He was charged with trespassing, disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process. All charges were eventually dropped. Sara Grewing, St. Paul’s city attorney at the time, later said Lollie had been sitting in a public area.
An internal St. Paul police review cleared the officers of wrongdoing. Lollie sued over the incident.
The settlement was disclosed as part of the St. Paul City Council’s agenda for next week’s meeting, which was released Thursday. It stipulates that the payment isn’t an admission of liability, and requires Lollie to give up further claims against the city and the officers involved.
Samuel Clark, the current city attorney, said St. Paul officials “were prepared to go to trial in this case. But ultimately there is always risk in litigation. The settlement was the fiscally responsible thing to do for taxpayers.”
Lollie declined to comment, and his lawyers didn’t immediately return a phone message.
