He Walks the Line
As the two sides waited for the assigned judge, Joan Lefkow, to return to the bench after a long absence, Bond’s attorney, Craig Futterman of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School, filed an amended version of the 20-month-old suit. He added three new defendants: a former administrator at the Office of Professional Standards, police superintendent Philip Cline, and the city of Chicago. Their failure to properly oversee the police department, the suit alleges, made it easier for the five officers to violate Bond’s civil rights.
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Kalven’s imagination surrendered to Bond’s experience. He writes: “[Cop A] came into the hall and yelled at her, ‘Shut up, cunt.’ He slapped her across the face, then kicked her in the ribs. In the course of searching the apartment, the officers threw Bond’s belongings on the floor, breaking her drinking glasses. [Cop A] knocked to the floor a large picture of a brown-skinned Jesus that sits atop a standing lamp in a corner of the living room. ‘Would you pick up my Jesus picture?’ Bond appealed to him. ‘Fuck Jesus,’ Replied [Cop A], ‘and you too, you cunt bitch.’”
Striving to achieve vivid yet no-nonsense invective, our pundits draw time and again from a shallow well.
“Maybe Rove could join Tom Cruise in his irresponsible views of psychiatry.” –editorial, Weymouth News, July 9.
