Well, see, that’s the problem with filing a lawsuit, you have to actually have something to sue over. Lawsuits are about money, and absent a financial loss, or some physical or emotional harm to the plaintiff, you have no lawsuit.
Even if we accept the reporter’s claim that there’s no “abuse of 911” law in Michigan (It’s usually called something else, but almost every state has one), there’s still the disturbing the peace type charge. Clearly, that’s what she was doing at the station, so a false arrest suit isn’t going to fly. If there had been some actual harm to the father as a result, and if that harm had been preventable, then there’d be something to hang your hat on there, but that doesn’t seem to apply.
So, combined with the timing on this, here’s two possibilities based on seeing a lot of these type of cases over the years. First, her lawyer, seeing that he has no case, is hoping to embarrass the city into coughing up some cash. Second, perhaps the charges against his client weren’t dropped, the court date’s approaching, and he’s attempting to negotiate an agreement where the city drops the charges and he cancels his publicity show. Both those kinds of activities are pretty common, and it wouldn’t surprise me to discover one applies here. One thing’s for sure, with a lawyer involved, if there was even one iota of evidence that the father had been harmed in any way, no matter how far-fetched, we’d be hearing about it.
I don’t know if the story is ‘new’. I only saw it on youtube, this could be from months before, it might not be resurfacing because of a lawsuit; but only making the rounds now.