Civil Rights
Jun. 25, 2003
SWAT Team Was Wrong, Panel Says
LOS ANGELES - A Simi Valley police SWAT team violated an 18-year-old Guatamalan immigrant's rights by holding her barefoot and handcuffed in a frigid garage for several hours while looking for a suspect in a drive-by gang shooting, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday.
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