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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Feb 8, 2023, 10:13 PM Feb 2023

12-year-old girl sues off-duty Kenosha officer, school district & city arguing her rights were viola

violated.

A federal lawsuit was filed Monday against the Kenosha Unified School District, City of Kenosha and a Kenosha police officer on behalf of a 12-year-old girl and her father. The girl was seen on video being restrained in a chokehold by the off-duty officer in Lincoln Middle School's cafeteria last year.

In a 14-page complaint, the girl's attorney, Drew DeVinney, says officer Shawn Guetschow used "unreasonable and excessive" force and that he "acted with malice or in reckless disregard" of the girl's rights, when he restrained her during a lunch room fight, by placing his knee on her neck for more than 20 seconds.

Guetschow had been working part-time as a school security guard for the school district, while also serving as a Kenosha police officer. He resigned from his role with the school district a few days following the incident, but in his resignation letter called out the district for a lack of support.

In a statement Tuesday, the Kenosha Police Department, confirmed that Guetschow is still an active officer with the department. Guetschow was placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of three separate investigations, however the department found that Guetschow did not violate anyone's civil rights, nor committed a crime, and was returned to active duty last week, the statement reads.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-old-girl-sues-off-225633417.html
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12-year-old girl sues off-duty Kenosha officer, school district & city arguing her rights were viola (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2023 OP
What? The prick thought the school district should cover for him like the police dept did... Thomas Hurt Feb 2023 #1
Makes me wonder about the staggering amount of abuse that police dept must cover up for their gang. canuckledragger Feb 2023 #2

Thomas Hurt

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1. What? The prick thought the school district should cover for him like the police dept did...
Wed Feb 8, 2023, 10:31 PM
Feb 2023

and it appears they still are.

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