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Not only did this man DESERVE to be arrested, but Brad Pitt himself should be arrested for the MURDER of the World War Z source material by his boring movie. /s

This was an absolutely insane case, and I'm glad it at least ended with sanity. The fact this arrest happened at all is unbelievably dumb and also scary.

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Sadly, this isn't over. The appeals court simply overturned a lower court decision and remanded the case back to the lower court.

Like the article states, this is likely to end in a settlement.

I would hope settlements for power abuses of this type would come out of this PD's pocket. Meaning: abuse power = less $ left for paying officers, obtaining gear, etc. So that in future, PDs would be more hesitant to stomp on things they don't like simply because they can.

But who am I kidding.. probably taxpayers on the hook as usual (same with court costs).

Btw: too bad victim deleted his post. No deletion (or even apology) needed.

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