DC reaches court settlement with man detained while protesting troops' patrol with Darth Vader song

[Dulcinea]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia has reached a settlement agreement for an undisclosed amount of money with a resident who claims police illegally detained him for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars” on his phone — an act of protest against the Trump administration’s federal law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital.

A court filing late Thursday says the plaintiff, Sam O’Hara, will drop his lawsuit’s claims against the district and four Metropolitan Police Department officers within three business days of receiving the settlement payment. The filing doesn’t specify a dollar amount for the deal between the district and O’Hara, who is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia.

In an email on Friday, an ACLU spokesperson referred to the settlement’s financial terms as “a significant amount” that O’Hara “is pleased with” but said they aren’t disclosing the dollar figure to protect his privacy. A spokesperson for D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb’s office declined to comment on the settlement.

https://apnews.com/article/darth-vader-theme-song-national-guard-protest-f7914320bd80612a90b92ca2769e6532

[mwmisses4289]

1. In other words, they fucked up, they know they fucked up,

they won't publicly acknowledge they fucked, and they didn't want it to go to trial where they would be forced to publicly acknowledge they fucked up.
Good for Mr. O'Hara!