Jeez. She's held for 3 weeks because she has flour-filled condoms and
you think SHE'S in the wrong? That drug lab has to be pretty F-ing
bad. They should be made to pay so that maybe somebody higher up will
take notice. Let's face it -- a $ settlement is probably more
effective than any other means we have of communicating with our
local government. We should be grateful that somebody took this rap
so that when you or I are stopped for some stupid thing MAYBE the
drug lab will be that tiny bit much better.
I suppose you think it could never happen to you. Good luck with that
line of thought.
Maggie
On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:13 PM, Ross Bender wrote:
I say we should have let her rot in jail.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - A U.S. college student imprisoned
for three weeks for trying to take flour-filled condoms onto an
airplane has settled her lawsuit against Philadelphia for
$180,000, a city spokesman said on Friday.
Janet Lee, 21, a student at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, was
arrested at Philadelphia International Airport in 2003 after
police and security officials thought the flour was an illegal drug.
She was held in Philadelphia on drug-trafficking charges and
released only when tests proved the substance in the three condoms
was flour.
The condoms, which are sometimes used to smuggle drugs, were a
joke among the students, and Lee was taking them home to Los Angeles.
Her civil rights case against Philadelphia, which had been set to
go to trial on Thursday, was settled for $180,000, said Ted
Qualli, spokesman for Philadelphia Mayor John Street.
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Ross Bender
http://rossbender.org
