{"id":49941,"date":"2014-12-15T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49941"},"modified":"2014-12-15T04:04:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:04:08","slug":"small-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49941","title":{"rendered":"Small Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Island woman, jailed for being a Tea Partier, <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/12\/12\/tea-party-mom-wins-1-12m-for-false-prosecution\/\">wins big bucks<\/a> in her lawsuit:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, \u201cI bet you are one of those Tea Party people.\u201d When Genovese said she\u2019s gone to Tea Party rallies, he allegedly said, \u201cYou\u2019re a real right-winger, aren\u2019t you?\u201d and \u201cYou are a \u2018Teabagger\u2019\u201d and then added that she\u2019d be arrested for terrorism to make an example of other \u201cright wingers.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMs. Genovese was subjected to a level of abuse because [authorities] did not share the same political views as she did and saw this as an excuse to deny her even the most basic civil rights,\u201d her lawyer Frederick Brewington said.\u200b\u200b<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Winning money is nice \u2013 but that&#8217;s one thing government officials are never short of, time whining notwithstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Far better that the sheriff deputy spend four days in jail himself; who qualified immunity&#8221; is supposed to cover police officers carry out duties they can reasonably be expected to perform; political persecution is not what we hire them for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Island woman, jailed for being a Tea Partier, wins big bucks in her lawsuit: Southhampton cops searched her and found a legally owned rifle that she was transporting from a nearby rifle range. She contends a deputy sheriff arrived on the scene later and said to her, \u201cI bet you are one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49942,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49941\/revisions\/49942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}