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This OC incident made national news: The result!
- Thread starter mspgunner
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thebigsd
Founder's Club Member
Good news!!! Hopefully they(City of Madison) have learned their lesson.
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peterarthur
Regular Member
Awesome!!! Be sure to post the link to all of your social networking sites to spread awareness.
DWCook
Activist Member
wow talk about over kill on the officers, I hope they didn't do this on purpose. Much rather hear that the officers were not aware that its legal to "Open Carry".
OC for ME
Regular Member
Good news for the Madison 5. Other than that little if anything will change. The defendants were not forced to justify their actions and policies in front of a judge and jury, where they surely would have lost. In my view, a prime opportunity was lost.
wrightme
Regular Member
When the norm is 'get trampled by horses,' getting out from under the feet of the horses is a reasonable result. It isn't typical to be able to get out from under the feet of the horses and immediately trample back.
While getting what YOU desire out of it might be beneficial, it isn't a realistic outcome to expect at this point.
(post quoted because you will just erase it soon)
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peterarthur
Regular Member
"Surely would have lost"? okaaayyy
Festus_Hagen
Regular Member
You think the city would have won ? :uhoh:
peterarthur
Regular Member
"They" appeared to indicate the Madison 5...
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wrightme
Regular Member
No, it doesn't appear that way.
"The defendants were not forced to justify their actions and policies in front of a judge and jury, where they surely would have lost."
"they" refers to "the defendants."
The Madison 5 were the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. Thus, in that quote, "They" appeared to indicate the cops, who would have allegedly been 'forced to justify their actions and policies in front of a judge and jury." Whether "they [defendants] surely would have lost" is really unknown. The reality is that at least the defendants believed that the judgement instead of the trial was the better course, for whatever reason their legal counsel recommended it.
Festus_Hagen
Regular Member
No, "they" is the defendant, which would be the po-po.
peterarthur
Regular Member
Yep, I didn't read it carefully. I was thinking of the 5 being charged falsely. And to think, I was once going to teach English
I.... must.... read.... slower........ or more carefully at least.
MKEgal
Regular Member
What a great analogy!wrightme said:
But actually, they were 'trampling back' even while being trampled.
And thanks to WCI, it's becoming more & more common to be able to trample back.
Maybe not as things are going wrong, but at least very shortly after persecution is dropped.
deepdiver
Campaign Veteran
The good citizens can only hope that the experience was sufficient to teach the Madison PD the appropriate lessons.