City Cops Deal In Sex Assault Case – UPDATE: Maybe
UPDATE (10/04): After meeting behind closed doors Monday night, City Attorney Mac McCarley emerged to announce that no settlement has been approved in the Jackson case. But that doesn’t mean the city isn’t getting ready to shell out some big bucks.
While no official settlement was announced, the uptown paper of record is reporting that three unnamed elected officials, who were part of Monday night’s closed-door negotiations, said council had directed McCarley to offer a total of $225,000 to two alleged victims who filed civil suits – a woman and her boyfriend who former CMPD officer Marcus Jackson had pulled over for a traffic stop. The woman claimed Jackson had sexually assaulted her during the stop.
A total of six women have accused Jackson of sexual assault. Jackson has been fired by the CMPD and is currently in Mecklenburg jail awaiting trial
Immediately after Monday night’s closed-session meeting, McCarley played coy with the media.
“The council has given me instructions and direction on how to proceed,” he said. “If at some point in the future we have a settlement, we will publicly announce it.”
McCarley declined to elaborate on any specifics.
“I can’t talk about my clients’ opinions or my directions,” he said.
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From Oct. 2: The city council is expected Monday to green-light a settlement that has been reached in civil lawsuits against the City of Charlotte and former police officer Marcus Jackson, WCNC is reporting.
Jackson currently sits in jail accused of sexually assaulting women while on the CMPD clock, while the city council apparently remains in full cover mode for Police Chief Rodney Monroe.
This from TCO:
The suits, filed in Mecklenburg Superior Court in January, accuse Jackson and the city of violating the couple’s constitutional rights and offers graphic details about what they say happened the night Jackson pulled them over as they headed home from a nightclub.
The suits say Jackson pulled them over after midnight Dec. 28, then made them follow him to the Eastway Baptist Church parking lot. There, the suits say, he fondled the woman under the guise of searching her, then ordered her boyfriend to pull down her bra and touch her while Jackson watched.
Jackson was hired in 2008 and went on patrol in Charlotte’s Eastway division in May 2009.
The couple’s attorney said the police department should have known of a 2005 restraining order that accused Jackson of hitting and slapping his girlfriend.
Attorney Rodgers said in January that the suit raises questions of larger public interest, such as whether the police department lowered its standards for new recruits as part of Chief Rodney Monroe’s effort to get more officers on the street, particularly minorities.
With a settlement, though, it’s unclear if those issues will be aired publicly.
Just like a majority of our esteemed city council prefers, after having refused to review – even in closed session – troubling questions and serious issues surrounding Jackson’s personnel history with the CMPD and Monroe’s possible complicity in having retained a rouge cop despite what should have been obvious warning signs of trouble.
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