Money, money, money, money, money money money money money money time for a lawsuit
2026-08-22 09:20:31
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Guadalupe Olivarez :
Hayes was pulled over while driving to get breakfast for his four children. The officers had run the vehicle’s registration and encountered the name “Sylvester Hayes,” which was associated with a felony family-violence warrant. Hayes himself was “Silvester” Hayes, a different person.
2. Hayes handed the officer his driver’s license. According to the reporting on the video, the officer looked at it but didn’t immediately verify the identity through the police database. The officers then began ordering Hayes out of the car.
3. Hayes repeatedly asked why he was being detained. The video shows officers attempting to pull him from the vehicle while he questioned what was happening. He yelled that they were hurting him and called for help.
4. Several additional officers arrived. According to the lawsuit and reporting about the footage, Hayes was taken to the ground and restrained, with allegations that officers kicked and punched him and used a Taser. The lawsuit also alleged an officer’s knee was placed on his head/neck/back.
5. Then came the remarkable part: while Hayes was being put into the police vehicle, Officer Harris checked his driver’s license against the system and apparently realized that he wasn’t the man wanted on the felony warrant. The federal judge specifically noted that this realization appears on the body-camera footage.
6. According to Hayes’s lawsuit, an officer can be heard saying essentially “we got the wrong guy.” The lawsuit also says a supervising sergeant later apologized for his team “roughing him up.” Those are allegations from Hayes’s lawsuit, rather than findings that the judge adopted as fact.
The really important legal issue
Here’s where the story gets complicated.
Even though the officers mistakenly thought Hayes was the wanted man, the federal judge did not ultimately rule that the entire arrest was unconstitutional.
The judge found that the officers had a separate basis for stopping Hayes: they said he had failed to signal before turning left. The court also found that Hayes was arguing with officers and physically resisting their attempts to remove him from the car. The lawsuit was dismissed immediately.
2026-08-22 09:16:42
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Ether Code :
blueline terrorists do NOT care about you or your rights only their egos and lies
2026-08-22 11:58:15
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