Marlene Pinnock’s Settlement Could Shift Cop Accountability
Marlene Pinnock, the 51-year-old African-American woman whose freeway beating at the hands of a California Highway Patrol officer was caught on video, may impact the future of police accountability. Along with a $1.5 million settlement Pinnock’s attorney Caree Harper won for her client, the officer, Daniel Andrew, agreed to resign “voluntarily for personal reasons,” the Los Angeles Times reported. That may prove to be a turning point in future police brutality cases.
Los Angeles Times reporters Kate Mather and Richard Winton wrote:
Experts said the move could have broader repercussions. Officers have significant employment rights and union representation, and an officer’s job is usually not up for negotiation in civil rights lawsuits, said Glen Jonas, an attorney who last year secured a $4.2-million settlement for two women shot at by LAPD officers during the manhunt for ex-Officer Christopher Dorner.
“It sets a new bar for us,” Jonas said. “It’s usually not open to discussion…. When the public is behind you, it changes the dynamics.”
And, says Harper, she’s not done seeking justice for her client. “We want him in prison,” Harper said of Officer Andrew, the Los Angeles Times reported. “I’m not done.”
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Accountability, damn straight! It's past time for this to stop!
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would not want to have to pay out huge sums of money to its citizens because of brutality.. even if it meant keeping them in line. It's way past time for "Accountability" for those on the Police Force who viciously beat their victims and kill innocents because they're trigger crazy.
This is good to know, too.. who can forget that.. 
So lucky they weren't killed. So how much per year does the LAPD have to pay because their police shouldn't even be on the job?
".. Glen Jonas, an attorney who last year secured a $4.2-million settlement for two women shot at by LAPD officers during the manhunt for ex-Officer Christopher Dorner."
Hopefully, Ferguson, MOPO will have to pay the parents of 
Michael Brown
for Darren Wilson murdering him in the street with his hands in the air.
Thanks she~ Marlene Pinnock~ It's because there was a video.. and that's going to happen more and more with so many people carrying them around with them. too bad police.. harder and harder to get away with your matter of course brutality.
It made me cry. Yes it was police brutality, however it was once again a man beating the crap out of a woman! She is a grandmother Cha! Dammit all to hell.
I am angry here.
Glad for the settlements, yet is it not the taxpayer that pays that tab for their rage and abuse? This has to stop. I hope we get angry and curb this abuse. I am outraged!
got to be some serious changes made in the way police do business. I know they have a terrible job and they're not all like the egregious examples we read about here. but the rotten apples, so to speak, are giving the whole dept a very bad name. You're only as good as your weakest link.
mahalo, she~
