On Thursday March 14, 2019, a Jury in the Andover Police Chief Trial Returned a Verdict. Andover Police Defendants Chief Patrick Keefe and Lieutenant Chad Cooper Won in a Federal Trial for Use of Excessive Force by Hook or by Crook Against a Pro Se Plaintiff. I already filed a Notice of Appeal.
ON OCTOBER 5, 2017, PATRICK KEEFE AND CHAD COOPER NOT ONLY ACTED LIKE REGULAR STREET THUGS WHEN THEY ATTACKED ME AND INJURED ME, THEY WERE ALSO DERELICT IN THEIR DUTY SINCE MY ONLY REASON FOR INTERACTING WITH THEM THAT DAY WAS TO REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES CONCERNING PUBLIC SAFETY.
But it was the defendants’ Chameleon-Video that will be front and center in this case on appeal:
Here’s the problem: Sitting in the court’s file, the attorneys for Keefe and Cooper have 2 or 3 different video versions of the same event for the Higher Courts’ Judges to review and judge for themselves, no pun intended.
In that case, why they did fight like hell to keep the jury from seeing the raw footage, you ask? that is the 10 million dollar question that the First Circuit Court of Appeals will have to answer. Isn’t’ it?
Andover Police Chief Patrick Keefe, Chad Cooper, the public officials of the town of Andover who sit on the Andover Board of Selectmen, should all be ashamed. And the residents of the town of Andover should be outraged. I should not have to tell them why they should be so. Had I been in their position_my conscience would be shocked.
While the jury found for the Andover police defendants, I, on the other hand, had the satisfaction of watching them squirm during the trial, and pump their fists like any other common criminal defendant when the verdict was read. This proves that I kept their feet on the fire, and they have felt the heat. In addition, I blazed trails for people who want to hold police accountable with or without a lawyer, as well as for the great majority of the disenfranchised.
For a while, I even succeeded in striping them of the qualified immunity that unfit police officers use as a security blanket while violating the law. It is not the notion of “qualified immunity” itself that is the problem. It is the way in which it is used by corrupt law enforcement officers as a license to kill. Most of all, I also gave them a record in federal court, which others can use in the future as a prior bad act.
The Plaintiff [That would be this author] won 3 out 4 rounds at key stages in the course of the litigation. The crooked defendants’ motion to dismiss pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) was denied. Then the Plaintiff prevailed on summary judgment. The Andover police defendants were also denied a motion for judgment as a matter of law when the Plaintiff [me] rests. And then, they were again denied directed verdict at the close of the case and before the judge charged the jury.