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$1,400 Settlement in WTO Protester’s Claim

Loaded on July 15, 2009

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Medication, Respiratory, Eyeglasses, Failure to Treat, Conditions of Confinement, Jail Specific, Excessive Force (Police). Location: Washington.

Washington State’s King County Jail paid $1,390.62 to settle the claim of Philip E. Craft, who was arrested for protesting the WTO and was in jail from December 1 – 5, 1999.

Craft alleged that prior to being arrested, he was pepper sprayed by police. Being an asthmatic, this caused ...

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