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City settles with woman arrested for wearing gun to church
Police drew weapons, pointed guns at open-carrying citizen
The city of Brookfield and four of its police officers have settled a federal lawsuit - and agreed to a judgment against them - with a woman the officers drew their weapons on and arrested last July 4 after she wore her gun to church.
The defendants offered a settlement of $7,500; the plaintiffs, Krysta Sutterfield and the gun-rights group Wisconsin Carry, Inc., accepted the judgment offer in the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Sutterfield was arrested after she attended services at Unitarian Universalist Church in Brookfield, her gun holstered at her side. No one reported a disturbance, but someone did call police to report Sutterfield.
Police officers Grant Palick, Mark Tushaus, Ronald Bethia, and Sarah Mork responded; Sutterfield was subsequently arrested as she tried to drive away.
No charges were ever filed. Sutterfield and Wisconsin Carry, Inc., filed the federal lawsuit against the city and the officers in October.
Nik Clark, president of Wisconsin Carry, said he was pleased to announce the judgment on behalf of his group's thousands of members and on behalf of "law-abiding citizens" who legally exercise their right to carry in the state.
"As open-carry is perfectly legal in Wisconsin and the officers were aware she had threatened no one and caused no disturbance, the officers had no reasonable articulable suspicion, which the law requires, to stop and detain our member against her will," Clark said. "In addition, by drawing their guns on a law-abiding citizen who had done nothing wrong, the officers used an unlawful threat of deadly force during their detainment of our member."
http://www.lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=9&SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=12459
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