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The cost of facing lawsuits ju
The city of Harvey -- a magnet for costly civil lawsuits -- may now have to spend even more taxpayer money when its embattled police force is accused of brutality and misconduct.
At a city council meeting last month, Harvey aldermen approved a new liability insurance package that dramatically increases the city's deductible in police-related lawsuits.
Harvey must now pay, with taxpayer funds, the first $500,000 in damages and legal fees for each suit, said the city's longtime insurance agent, Bill Owens. For non-police cases, the city's deductible remains steady at the pr... Read more
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Detroit Free Press - United St
28 December 2007
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Michigan State trooper acquitt
An internal investigation into the alleged assault of a homeless man by a Michigan State Police trooper will continue now that the officer was acquitted of criminal charges in the case.
Gabriel Seibt, 30, was acquitted Dec. 21 by a Wayne County Circuit Court jury.
The eight-year trooper was charged with misconduct in office and felonious assault. He was accused of using state-issued chemical spray on Roosevelt Dean Jr., then 50, and then dumping him at the State Fairgrounds on June 24, 2005.
Todd Parsons, Seibt's partner at the time, was charged with misconduct in connection with the alleged assault.
Last year, Parsons pleaded guilty to filing a false police report, a misdemeanor, and was sentenced to pay $500, said Matt Frendewey, spokesman for the Michigan Attorney General's Office.
Parsons remains on the job, assigned to the Lansing post. Seibt is suspended without pay until the internal investigation determines whether he violated the State Police code of conduct.
Both troopers were charged Jan. 9, 2006. They were accused of putting Dean in the back of their squad car after a verbal confrontation in Detroit, then taking him from Greektown to the fairgrounds.
Seibt was accused of spraying Dean before the troopers left him by the side of the road.
Dean was hospitalized and later filed a complaint.
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