A California city will pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging police harassment during a raid on a marijuana dispensary.
The city of Santa Ana will also drop misdemeanor charges
against a dozen people accused of unlawfully operating Sky High Holistic, the
Orange County Register reported Wednesday.
Attorney Matthew Pappas said the money will go to two Sky
High volunteers and an unrelated doctor whose nearby office was affected by
last year's raid.
The suit was filed after surveillance video showed police
playing darts and an officer making demeaning comments about a woman in a
wheelchair. Another officer can be seen eating what appears to be a pot-laced
edible, according to the lawyer.
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Santa Ana Deputy City Manager Roberto Cortez declined to
discuss the settlement, the newspaper said.
The suit alleged that Mayor Miguel Pulido and other city
employees favored certain dispensaries. It said the city put up a ballot
proposal, Measure BB, for the November 2014 election, soliciting payments from
collectives with the promise of winning a spot in an eventual marijuana permit
lottery.
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