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The Florida Highway Patrol officer who tased a Lee County teen, violated policy. The officer tased a teen after he looked “suspicious” darting through the bushes.
Said Sawyer C. Smith, Rodeman’s attorney, “they’re kids. Kids walk to where they need to go, and kids cut through bushes.”
Florida Highway Patrol policy states "tasers should only be used when there's a sudden attack or active resistance." Rodeman's actions are consiered passive resistance.
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A Lee County teenager who was tased and placed in juvenile detention, won’t be charged.
Said Sayer C. Smith, Rodeman’s attorney, But with the State Attorney’s Office dismissing the charges, it tells this young man that he didn’t do anything wrong”
Rodeman’s attorney, Sawyer Smith, said he will fight to get the charges dropped and will go after Florida Highway Patrol.
“There is no place in a free society for the government to inflict physical abuse on a child”, said Sawyer C. Smith. “We will prosecute a civil case against Florida Highway Patrol until the very end.”
WINK News asked defense attorney Sawyer Smith, who is not part of the lawsuit, to weigh in.
“The city is responsible for not only defending itself but also for providing legal counsel for their employees or former employees,” Smith said.
A defense attorney representing the owner of Bruno Total Home Performance said there is absolutely no evidence of forgery at the company.
Sawyer Smith allowed WINK News to ask a few questions of Louis Bruno while he was present.
Smith said anyone with an issue with the company is welcome to contact him directly, so they can look into the issue.
“We said at the beginning of this case that Mr. Allen came forward so aggressively to bring about change to (the) Fort Myers Police Department and the city as a whole,” Allen’s attorney Sawyer Smith said Monday. “And we feel like today is a step in that direction.”
“When there’s a death involved, the penalty for that is a maximum license suspension and a fine,” said Sawyer Smith, an attorney for the Wilbur Smith Law Firm in Fort Myers.
“Some people who have taken that third option are experiencing some problems, just because we do not know when the EPA is going to approve the fix,” said Sawyer Smith, a Fort Myers attorney whose firm represented plaintiffs in the class action suit.
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