A Black U.S. Service Agent sues two U.S. Park Police Officers who detained illegally. |
Even people of color in law enforcement are being targeted.
U.S. Secret Service Officer Nathaniel Hicks was stopped on duty in July 2015 by the U.S. Park Service Police. Hicks, who is Black, filed a lawsuit claiming he was unlawfully detained by the two white officers.
His lawsuit says it appears the officers singled him out because of his race.
U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm, a Barack Obama appointed judge ruled on Monday that a jury can decide whether Gerald Ferreyra and Brian Phillips violated Hicks' constitutional right to be free from an unreasonable seizure.
Hicks said he did nothing wrong when he was approached by the two U.S. Park Police officers in July 2015. He told the officers that he was a Secret Service agent and he was waiting to accompany a cabinet secretary's motorcade.
"I said, 'Whoa, whoa!' I'm a Secret Service special agent," Hicks said in the lawsuit.
The U.S. Park Police supervisor told Hicks that he was free to go between 40 and 60 minutes after Ferreyra first detained him.
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Hicks claimed that Ferreyra and Phillips both yelled at him, talked to him in a degrading manner, and wouldn't let him leave even after he showed his Secret Service credentials.
He was assigned as an agent to protect then-Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson.
Hicks is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Secret Service.
The judge ruled the defendant may be held liable for the second stop, as well. Hicks' suit seeks an unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
Even if you're an African American member of law enforcement, you're just treated like a criminal. Black law enforcement officers know that the "blue wall of silence" is "no snitching."
They can't all be shucking and jiving like David Clarke.
You may remember David Clarke, Jr., the bombastic former sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
He was hoping to get a job with Donald J. Trump as the Homeland Security chief. Alas, he's too tainted by Russian influence to get that job. Now he's no longer a fixture on Fox News and he's been fired by BlazeTV. He at least still trolls on the internet as some kind of "rock star".
A lousy coonservative who couldn't butter them biscuits.
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