( 4UMF NEWS ) Woman Locks Cop In Basement, Wins Settlement:
In one of the more unusual police brutality lawsuits in recent years, 90-year-old Baltimore resident Venus Green was awarded a $95,000 settlement earlier this month after a 2009 incident in which she locked a police officer in the basement of her home.
According to WBAL TV, police came to Green’s home after her grandson Tallie had been shot. Green told the TV station that Tallie had been shot at a convenience store, but officers insisted it happened in Green’s home, and that Tallie had either been shot by Green or had shot himself. With that, one officer forced his way into her home, without a warrant, toward the basement where Tallie lived to look for blood or other evidence.
Green told WBAL the officer shoved her, pushed her over a chair, handcuffed her and insulted her. When the officer then went into her basement, she says she shut the door and locked him inside. She later brought a civil rights lawsuit, and in early April accepted the city’s settlement offer. “[I'm a] law-abiding citizen,” Green told WBAL. “I’ve never been arrested, I paid my taxes, owned my home, my husband died 34 years ago. [I] raised my son and I have been brutally abused. I feel like the police department needs to go back to school.”
Green now seems destined to become part of Baltimore lore. In an April 10 Baltimore Sun op-ed, Stevenson University assistant professor Heather Harris deemed her a “fierce angel,” a reference to the book by Sheri Parks. It’s a phrase Parks uses “to describe an African-American woman who is almost impossibly strong and selfless.”
The cop got punked and the city had to cough up that dough.
Respect your elders…
Related articles
- Woman, 90, Locked Officer In Basement, Settles With Police (refreshingnews99.blogspot.com)
- NYPD: Woman Wanted For Impersonating Cop Actually A Man (newyork.cbslocal.com)
