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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 06:09 PM Jul 2018

Black man called N-word by Brockton, MA parking officer

Lawsuit: Black man called N-word by Brockton parking officer, faced ‘malicious’ prosecution

BROCKTON – A parking control officer working for the city of Brockton was issuing a ticket to a disabled black man for using a handicap parking space, but when the driver tried to dispute it by showing his state-issued handicap placard, the city employee responded by calling him a racial slur, according to a federal lawsuit filed last month.
“Shut up, n-----.”

But it doesn’t stop there. A 38-page complaint filed last month against the city of Brockton in U.S. District Court states that Jorge Delgado, the city parking control officer, then falsely claimed to police that the disabled man was brandishing a knife during the incident ... Sean Williamson, was later arrested by Brockton police on charges of threatening to commit a crime and assault with a dangerous weapon.

A review of surveillance camera video of the incident showed Williamson had no knife, but the case against him still went to trial in February this year, when the video evidence suddenly disappeared from Brockton police custody ...
Williamson, who has an amputated left leg, waived his right to a jury trial and a judge found him not guilty.

“The Brockton Police Department should have cleared Mr. Williamson and saw to it that Mr. Delgado was fired from his city job for using a racial slur against Mr. Williamson, and lying,” said Daniel W. Rice, a Braintree-based attorney representing the plaintiff.
“Brockton had Mr. Williamson arrested, jailed, and prosecuted for a serious crime its own police department’s investigation showed he didn’t commit.
If this weren’t outrageous enough, Brockton continued to prosecute Mr. Williamson all the way until he was found ‘not guilty’ of the false charges at trial, even though it had somehow ‘lost’ the videotape along the way.”

Outrageously, Delgado is still employed by the city of Brockton.

http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/20180728/lawsuit-black-man-called-n-word-by-brockton-parking-officer-faced-malicious-prosecution
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Black man called N-word by Brockton, MA parking officer (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jul 2018 OP
this delgado guy is heaven05 Jul 2018 #1
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
1. this delgado guy is
Tue Jul 31, 2018, 02:20 PM
Jul 2018

a Hispanic person treating another POC this way? Amazing. Not really. A lot voted to shoot themselves in the foot, he probably included among them. I know AA voted for the orange buffoon, women voted for the buffoon, gays voted for the buffoon, so I will not allow myself to be surprised or enraged when one of the orange buffoon's surrogates act out racistly like orange man little hands encouraged and enabled them to? I hope Mr Williamson can retire to Costa Rica when he finishes in court with the Brockton P.D.

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