Archive for November, 2009
On the night of September 10, nearly 50 officers of the Atlanta Police Department conducted a warrantless raid on the Atlanta Eagle, a local bar, in which the occupants were forced to the floor, searched and had their driver’s licenses seized while police ran background checks. Twenty of the people forced to the ground filed suit in federal court on Tuesday alleging federal civil rights violations and demanding a change in police department policy.
WABE News has the story.
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Cobb County police arrested Paul Patrick Serdula, a nurse anesthetist, last week for unlawful surveillance after a patient found video surveillance equipment in a Marietta dentist office bathroom. Authorities then re-arrested Serdula on Monday night for aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation after evidence revealed that he may have made sexual contact with a sedated juvenile. Police now fear that there may be as many as 100 other victims who were inappropriately touched while sedated.
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Cobb County police believe that a Marietta, Georgia nurse anesthetist may have inappropriately touched hundreds of patients while they were sedated. The allegations arose after a patient found video surveillance equipment in the women’s bathroom of a Cobb dentist office.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution has the story.
Police say a patient spotted the recording device and immediately called 911. Authorities were then able to link the device to Paul Patrick Serdula. Upon searching Serdula’s home, police found hundreds ...
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Victims of Georgia peanut butter contaminated with Salmonella angered over lack of prosecutions
FBI agents raided two peanut butter plants in Blakely, Georgia nearly a year ago after a Salmonella outbreak was linked to the plants’ peanut butter. The outbreak killed nine people and sickened hundreds of others. However, not a single executive of the company, Peanut Corp. of America, has been charged with a crime. The lack of prosecutions has caused a stir among many victims and ...
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The Court of Appeals of Georgia recently determined that DeKalb County could be held liable for injuries that a motorist sustained during a high-speed police chase, since there were factual issues as to whether the pursuing officer recklessly disregarded policies of the DeKalb County Police Department.
In Rahmaan v. DeKalb, Rahmaan, the plaintiff, stated that she was stopped at a red light at a four-way intersection around 10:00pm in the summer of 2005. When the light turned green, she heard ...
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