Saturday, February 13, 2016
FL: Sheriff's Office accused of false arrest in Stand Your Ground case
Christian Gunter will sue the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office for false arrest.
Gunter is the 22-year-old who shot Roger Atlas at a gas station on Oct. 5, after the pair were involved in a road rage incident.
“We believe that sheriff's detectives had enough evidence to not have arrested Christian, based on Stand Your Ground,” Gunter's lawyer, Sarasota attorney Jeffrey Young, said Thursday. “My client has been damaged financially. He's out a lot of money for fees, bond and more. Of course, there's emotional damage after spending a couple days in the county jail, and there's damage to his reputation. This made national news.”
Young was referring to the Florida law that allows a resident to use deadly force in self-defense if he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm.
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They will settle this civilly for a fair amount of bucks to make it all go away.
While this is a good thing and I do hope civil payouts grow more and more as a punishment for false arrests - something else has to come to pass as well.
CRIMINAL complaints. No, I do not mean filing them in order to push the civil cases, but actual officers held to account personally.
Ya know, if they were forced to gain warrants - false arrests would not be happening.
Imagine that, it is almost like our Founders KNEW THAT.
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