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Tea Party mom wins $1.12M for false prosecution

hypocritexposer

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A Long Island mother of three arrested for taking pictures of an Air National Guard base in the Hamptons ​– ​while ​armed to the teeth with a licensed assault rifle in her car — has been awarded ​$1.12 million​ by a federal jury over her false prosecution by Suffolk County authorities.

​The Central Islip ​jury ​on Thursday sided with Nancy Genovese, 58, in a 2010 lawsuit she filed against Suffolk County​, its​ Sheriff’s Office and other parties, ​claiming she was ​only ​arrested during the July 2009 incident because she belonged to the Tea Party.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/12/tea-party-mom-wins-1-12m-for-false-prosecution/


Genovese was arrested while taking pictures of a decorative helicopter in front of the Gabreski Airport Air National Guard base in Westhampton Beach for a “Support Our Troops” website. She was charged with criminal trespass and spent four days in jail before the charges were dropped.

Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, “I bet you are one of those Tea Party people.” When Genovese said she’s gone to Tea Party rallies, he allegedly said, “You’re a real right-winger, aren’t you?” and “You are a ‘*********’” and then added that she’d be arrested for terrorism to make an example of other “right wingers.”

“Ms. Genovese was subjected to a level of abuse because [authorities] did not share the same political views as she did and saw this as an excuse to deny her even the most basic civil rights,” her lawyer Frederick Brewington said.​​

Genovese said in a statement said she was “relieved” by the jury’s verdict. She added, “if this can happen to me, and officers can abuse their power like this, I can only imagine how other people who are not as fortunate as me have been treated.”

Messages left with Suffolk County ​and the ​Sheriff’s Office were not immediately returned.
 

Steve

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Over the years I have been shocked at how liberal some police forces are...

but then again many are strong union supporters as well..

we ran into quite a bunch of them in DC,.. had to have a permit just to &4!7 and be anywhere.. as stopping and standing was against the law in DC.

but liberal protests seem to just get a pass.. .
 

Brad S

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What you describe Steve is the face of tyranny. Everything is illegal if the state chooses to single you out. I'm completely confused by the fact some people must support this unequal prosecution
 
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