Posted on 07/31/2014 7:28:31 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals
DENVER — The attorney for Anthony Waller, the shackled inmate who was seen on surveillance cameras being slammed into a wall by a Denver Sheriff’s deputy during a hearing before a judge in 2012, has filed a lawsuit over the incident.
The lawsuit in U.S. District Court names the city and county of Denver, Deputy Brad Lovingier, Capt. Gina McCall and the Denver Sheriff’s Department.
A news release sent by attorney Kenneth Padilla on Wednesday says Waller was “shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and belly chain” when Lovingier “without provocation, grabbed Mr. Waller by his shackles, spun him around and violently slammed him into a large glass window and metal post. Waller collapsed onto the ground, sustaining serious injury.”
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Judge Doris Burd filed an internal affairs complaint with the Denver County Sheriff, but the Denver District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute the deputy. Lovingier was suspended 30 days and according to his disciplinary case file, a witness called the deputy’s actions “a little excessive.”
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Lovingier, a 12-year veteran of the department and the son of former Sheriff William Lovingier, appealed the suspension, but it was upheld by the Career Service Board.
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
Several groups of like minded progressives are watching everything they believe become lies. It makes them go bonkers.
Anthony Waller is a great man and in no way deserves the treatment he received from the big bad meany in Denver — Anthony Waller needs to be released back into the community where he can continue being the amazing, outstanding, upright, hardworking, honest citizen we all know he is — His mere presence in the community adds so much. You would never find me rooting for Harry Callahan. Criminals have rights...which Anthony Waller is not one. I’m with you on this one...
That is too close to reality. The ISIS purge is coming soon to our neighborhoods.
Okay, good job proving you’re an asshat, since you’re making an argument that no one is agreeing or disagreeing with.
I don’t think ONE person has defended a single thing about the defendant except he shouldn’t be thrown into a wall.
May you and yours experience the same.
Thank you both...you are great Americans.
What a stupid thing to say. Excessive force, bullying, and malfeasance are capital offenses?
Noticably absent from the entire report was any mention of the charges against scumbag Anthony Waller. I suspect the ordinary Speeding +10 cases don't get all the fancy wrist and ankle bling for their court appearances.
I really don't care. There's a 96% chance that the scumbag Anthony Waller is a racist odinga voter. He deserves much worse.
Thanks for that link. I watched about five minutes of it before my blood boiled. It is marked as a favorite.
One consolation...like a big pile of manure draws all the stupid flies that eat poop, this kind of thread draws all the idiotic cop-haters to one location where they feast on hate and their mindless antinomianism. But, it keeps them off the street where they might hurt themselves and localizes their stench to this one thread. Stick around girls/boys and keep the rest of FR stink-free...please.
Waller was facing domestic violence charges on Sept. 11, 2012, and in the courtroom’s surveillance video, he could be heard asking the judge, “The investigation should come first and then the arrest?"
I suggest you read the text at the KDVR link. There is an imbedded link in the above paragraph.
Don't let facts spoil your rant.
Not one word of your rant had anything to do with these events in a courthouse. To a shackled defendant.
We’ll get you some reading lessons for Christmas.
I don’t know what the cops have to be so angry about — I mean they are usually dealing with people of the highest caliber of intellect, decorum, and demeanor.
People that comport themselves with the highest respect and humility towards law enforcement officers while dealing with the law enforcement officer — I mean, have you ever seen one of these pillars of the community shoot at a police officer, naw, me neither. I mean these people that come in to contact with law enforcement are the same people that you want watching your pre-teen children for a long weekend or helping your grandparents set up their retirement funds, or manage the cash register at the local convenient market.
Why on earth are the police so angry...makes no sense. The people that show up in court in shackles are simply mis-understood. It’s the man that needs to change.
“Anthony Waller the shackled inmate (choir boy) who was probably in jail on false charges to begin with...”
So I take it that it’s o.k. to just abuse him because he’s not an upstanding citizen, is that what you’re saying?
The most disturbing thing here is how the “Just Us” System “closes ranks” in these cases and refuses to prosecute the cop. I hope this guy liberates the $5 mil his suing for from the good “citizens” of Denver.
“I hope this guy liberates the $5 mil his suing for from the good “citizens” of Denver.”
Yeah!!! Me too!!! Then some raper can sing a song about smack’n his ho and gett’n rich n-$hit off the man...cuz work’n is fo suka’s MFer.
Welcome.
Tell me, is there ANY justification at all to slam someone who is cuffed into a wall?
Answer is NO by the way.
And yet, you felt the need to excuse the behavior.
Again, may you experience such behavior directed at you and yours.
“Yeah!!! Me too!!! Then some raper can sing a song about smack’n his ho and gett’n rich n-$hit off the man...cuz work’n is fo suka’s MFer.”
I guess you must live in Colorado and as a consequence, have had your morning “hit” off the bong.
Considering areukiddingme1 is defending this, it is then by their logic perfectly okay to slam THEM into a wall for no reason.
And it would be perfectly okay.
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