Good News on the Lawsuit Front

This is unusual:

• A federal jury on Tuesday rejected claims and awarded no damages to a man who brought a lawsuit over his February 2020 shooting by a Chicago police officer inside a CTA Red Line station.

  The shooting followed a lengthy struggle during a rush-hour commute.

  The jury deliberated for a little less than two hours at the end of the seven-day civil trial. In the end, it answered the call from one officer’s attorney to “send a message” to Ariel Roman, the man shot by the officer, that his actions on the train platform were “inexcusable.”

  The panel repeatedly watched video of Roman’s struggle with officers on Feb. 28, 2020, during which the officers also used Tasers and pepper spray to try to subdue him. Officer Melvina Bogard, who shot Roman, told them she feared he’d push her onto the train tracks.

You can argue tactics, procedures, incompetence, whatever. But the proper message that was sent here needs to be broadcast far and wide:

• There is ZERO right to resist the police. 

Even if you're a Supreme Court Justice and you know one-hundred-percent, beyond a shadow of a doubt that the stop and subsequent arrest are unlawful, you do not get to decide that on the street. You decide that in Civil Court after the fact. 

Too many plaintiff attorneys, abetted by morons in the media and urged on by ignorant politicians, have been pushing that narrative for far too long and it needs to stop. 

This was a first step.