69 yr old black man using golf club as cane gets arrested. dash cam saves him from cop's lies

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10. He is an Air Force vet, too--20 years' service. The article says he's suing, but the text

gives one amount ($750,000), while the caption under a photo gives another ($75,000). I'm guessing the correct amount is $75,000. I hope he wins!

ON EDIT: Check out this comment from an article on a local site about this case--

The fact that Officer Whitlach claims Mr. Wingate "hit a stop sign" with his club/cane should have alerted anyone with half a brain that her story is utter bullshit, seeing as the nearest stop sign to where she stopped him at 12th & E. Pike would be one block west at the North-South intersection of 11th & E. Pike, which means she would have had to have seen him allegedly hit the sign when she made the turn at 0:16 (he would have had to have been out-of-frame to the left), and then be able to walk one full block in the roughly minute and a-half between the turn and when she stops at 12th & E. Pike. Granted, an able-bodied person could probably traverse that distance at normal speed, but a 70 year-old man with obvious trouble walking? Not bloody likely

Furthermore, if he *had* hit the sign, there would have been some sort of evidence of the blow on the sign.

Police officers should be seriously punished when caught out in such obvious lies. At the very least, no one should ever give a cop the benefit of the doubt in any cop vs. citizen situation where it is just one person's word against another. Their propensity for lying has been proven to be not a bug but a feature of their training and their policing tactics, so much so that it seems to be automatic. I have actually read about some cases in which cops falsify details even when there is no apparent advantage in doing so.