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> He sued for $1.5 million for being jailed for a week? > That seems completely unreasonable. Here's [0] another article. He showed up in the location (Googl
by inetknght 5y ago
> He sued for $1.5 million for being jailed for a week?
> That seems completely unreasonable.
Here's [0] another article.
He showed up in the location (Google) and his ownership of same make/color vehicle (surveillance video) added to his suspectibility. So he was arrested. A week later he was released. A year later he's suing for defamation, gross negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In that one week:
> the arrest causes him to fail background checks
> news coverage prominently features in Google searches of his name
> forced to drop out of school, having missing too many classes of the accelerated college program he was enrolled in
So, he lost his job and his school. In one week he easily could have missed rent -- and this is before the pandemic so there's no moratorium on evictions.
$1.5 million definitely isn't unreasonable for problems caused from being in jail for a week despite innocence.
[0]: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10760055/innocent-man-23-sues-arizona-cops-for-1-5million-after-they-used-faulty-google-gps-data-to-arrest-him-for-murder/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10760055/innocent-man-23-sues-...
- PoignardAzur 5y agoYeah. I guess I didn't think he'd suffered from so much damage.
- handoflixue 5y agoIf you make $150K/year, that's still ten years of pay. We can discuss how much of a multiplier is reasonable for being punitive, but it seems rather obvious that a week in jail does not reasonably cost you ten years of Silicon Valley senior engineering wages. For anyone who is not blessed as a programmer and merely earns the average (median) of $36,0000 year, we'd be talking about 40+ years of lost wages.
- inetknght 5y agoYes, governments should be incentivised to not arrest people who are innocent. Go try to reform your local judicial system so that innocent people aren't arrested.