Citing my own personal experience, LPD has a history and are well known for huge over reactions for little cause. He was lucky he did not have the snot beat out of him for his trouble. I love my home town, I admire cops in general, even wanted to be one at one point. But the Loveland police can go to hell as far as I am concerned, all of them.
That can be arranged:
United States Code, Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code §ection 241
Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
BTW: now they can't claim any such actions are *unknowing* and the training will make it clear that such actions were taken in violation of the city's policy- as well as being part of a continuing pattern of criminal activiety, IE racketeering, which under the federal RICO Act can result in triple damages for the plaintiff and 1.5 times the plaintiff's attorney's legal fees, all to be paid by the defendant municipality. Which at the typical $399- $495/Hour fee for a good attorney specializing in such cases, could bankrupt the city right quickly, as well as putting a couple of their public servents behind federal bars for a decade or better.