​​Black Pastor Arrested Watering Neighbor’s Flowers Wins Appeal ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ | Atlanta Daily World
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Attorneys for Pastor Michael Jennings, the Childersburg pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbors flowers, won a huge victory today with a federal appeals court reversing a lower court’s decision to dismiss Jennings’ lawsuit against the City of Childersburg and the three officers who illegally arrested him saying the officers “lacked even arguable probable … Continued

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Attorneys for Pastor Michael Jennings, the Childersburg pastor who was arrested while watering his neighbors flowers, won a huge victory today with a federal appeals court reversing a lower court’s decision to dismiss Jennings’ lawsuit against the City of Childersburg and the three officers who illegally arrested him saying the officers “lacked even arguable probable … Continued

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  • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    You forgot that he was being black in public. That alone is reasonable suspicion for most cops.

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      That certainly contributes to it, but all you really have to do is not bend over and spread your cheeks to their authority and then your rights (and maybe your life) are forfeit.