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83-Year-Old Woman's Win in Police Brutality Case [1]

['Mark Frauenfelder']

Date: 2023-12-11

The US Supreme Court, currently under the control of a far-right majority, typically sides with law enforcement in police brutality cases, invoking qualified immunity, a doctrine that protects police from liability in lawsuits.

However, in a surprising departure, the Court ruled in favor of an 83-year-old California woman, Elise Brown, who was forced to her knees at gunpoint and handcuffed during a traffic stop by Chino, California police officers, who suspected her vehicle was stolen. The Supreme Court found that the police had violated her rights and allowed Brown to proceed with her lawsuit against the Chino Police Department.

Elise Brown's lawyer said his client had been "terrified, humiliated, and emotionally traumatized. That conduct was not reasonable; it was extraordinarily dangerous and flatly inconsistent with the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on excessive force."

The cops saw things differently. From USA Today:

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