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AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)

7. When we've seen video tapes of police needlessly pepper-spraying people, it is wrong to

Reply to Bully Taw (Reply #6)

Mon Apr 1, 2013, 11:58 AM

Apr 2013

reject the reported incident out of hand.

The source for the story is Courthouse News Service. The case has been filed in a Federal court. The Federal court rules, and particularly Rule 11, require attorneys filing lawsuits to first verify that the facts support their pleadings. Attorneys who fail to do so can be sanctioned heavily.

You have no factual basis for believing or suggesting that others believe that the event did not happen.