Former Secret Service officer Nathaniel Hicks, who's Black, was pulled over twice by U.S. Park Police along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. A federal appeals court this week affirmed that the officers who pulled over Hicks owe him $730,000 in damages.
While the two officers were found personally liable, the U.S. government stillThe facts of the case were largely undisputed. Ferreyra saw Hicks’s unmarked car on the shoulder of the road and approached from the passenger side for a “welfare check.” When he saw the gun in its holster on the passenger seat, Ferreyra pointed his service weapon at Hicks and repeatedly yelled, with expletives, “Don’t touch the gun.
Hicks began driving away and called his superior again to figure out where to go. But within minutes he was pulled over — by Phillips, who demanded Hicks’s license and registration. Hicks was let go a second time without a ticket.The Park Police officers maintained that they acted reasonably in a confusing situation.“I did everything appropriately,” he said. “No shots were fired.”
“I originally thought that probably the driver of that vehicle possibly could have been drunk,” he said, “then thought, well, he’s not drunk, he’s just on the phone.” On-duty law enforcement officers can talk on the phone while driving in Maryland. They “flexed and abused their power and authority as police officers to try to put Agent Hicks in his place,” Hicks’s attorney, Jia Cobb, told jurors at the end of the trial. Cobb isJurors specifically ruled in their verdict that neither Park Police officer was truthful about their motivations and that their actions were not reasonable or in line with Park Police practice.
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