I Love it When The Police get Sued

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Police Commit Assault, Tresspassing and Kidnapping in the Name of Public Safety

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Activist Post

In the UK, Michael Doherty, a former aircraft engineer, issuing the Metropolitan Police for breaking and entering, assault and battery, and kidnapping. Doherty was forcibly taken into police custody on suspicion of harassment without probable cause for the crime.

A district court judge agreed to allow Doherty to bring charges against the police in West London for their blatant disregard for the law. After a bogus internal investigation, Doherty filed charges against the officers in question.

Two men in plain clothes claiming to be police officers came to the victim’s door. Doherty refused to allow the police into his residence when they demanded he open the door. This prompted the use of violent force by the police and the reason for Doherty’s counter claim.

The officers who came to take Doherty asserted authority based on a trumped-up claim by a commander’s secretary that she was harassed by the victim. In a statement, she said that Doherty had called the station and became engaged, “abusive, rude and aggressive”. Answering to these inflated allegations, Doherty agreed to come to the station of his own volition; however the police officers responded by dragging him violently out of his home, handcuffing him and forcing him into their car.

Doherty, having recorded the calls made to the police, could prove that the commander’s secretary was lying. After this fact was produced, the secretary became unsure of her recollection of the conversations with Doherty, saying they were “hazy”. Doherty has decided to pursue private litigation against the police officers for perjury, making false statements concerning the phone calls, and demanding the officers be fired.

According to the summons served on the officers:

You were on the property as a trespasser and you threatened to smash down a glass-paneled door which the homeowner was holding closed. You threatened and used a battering ram to support your threat of violence. The occupants were caused fear for their personal safety. You willfully failed to perform your duty to such a degree that it amounted to an abuse of the public trust which had been placed in you.

Committing trespassing, and kidnapping, the officers took Doherty without permission and therefore without warrant for arrest broke the law. Entry into a private home is by court authority with a search warrant or permission of the resident in the UK just as it is in the US.  read on...