Plaintiff:
Tony Abernathy
Incident date:
12/08/2000
Location:
1718 S. State St.
Allegations:
All 200-plus plaintiffs were arrested across the city for ordinance violations punishable by fines, not jail sentences. Yet officers detained the plaintiffs for unreasonably long periods after they had been processed, charged, an initial probable-cause determination was made and a watch commander determined they were not to be fingerprinted. The plaintiffs' detentions ranged from four hours to more than 12 hours. For many plaintiffs, the extended and unnecessary detentions occurred more than once.