Christopher Micklovich booking photo
MANCHESTER – Christopher Micklovich, the bar patron whose bloodied, beaten face shocked Manchester residents following his 2010 arrest, was quietly paid $200,000 to settle a federal lawsuit he filed against the city and four police officers accused of beating him, the New Hampshire Union Leader has learned.
City Risk Manager Harry Ntapalis, who oversees claims and settlements against the city, said the payment was approved and paid in mid-May of last year. Ntapalis provided the information when asked Monday by the Union Leader.
Ntapalis said the city spent another $68,000 on bills for the lawyers who represented the four officers in the lawsuit.
“It was a global settlement. All his medication, pain, suffering, everything was taken into account,” Ntapalis said. He said the $200,000 settlement was reached through mediation among lawyers for all sides.
“There were demands for a much higher amount. We went back and forth and it was eventually decided,” Ntapalis said.
The payment is yet another wrinkle in the matter, which stemmed from the March 3, 2010, beating of Micklovich by four off-duty police officers outside the Strange Brew Tavern on Market Street.
Police initially downplayed the matter, but eventually asked the New Hampshire attorney general to look into the matter. After months of investigation, Attorney General Michael Delaney concluded the four officers had not committed a crime, but said it was not the Manchester Police Department’s finest hour.
“Look at the Attorney General’s report,” City Attorney Robert J. Meagher said. “That was a really exhaustive investigation – a couple thousand pages and the result was there was no wrongdoing found on the part of the police department.”
One of the four, Lt. Ernie Goodno, retired shortly after the incident. The other three were suspended, but their suspensions were eventually overturned by an arbitrator.
Submitted by Joe
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Read $200,000 Settlement Acknowledged for Micklovich Beating via Garret Ean, FreeConcord.org, March 12, 2013.
how could they say no crime was commited,,f-ing outragous,,,,,if anyone else had done that they would be in jail
Got to hand it to cops. They may have no capability of showing any regard for others, no courage, poor aim and understanding of how to safely handle fire arms in a public environment, low self control when they become offended, egos the size of Obama, but they have beat downs down pat. No one can beat someone to death or into surgery like a group of cops. it’s like watching gang bangers.
$200,000, that will learn you, Manchester, for beating up this man. Oh, you weren’t the ones to beat him up? Then why are you paying him money in damages?
Please tell readers why police beat this man up and what if any criminal charge the police charged him with. I am sorry this person was beaten up by the police. Does anyone know a good lawyer in Rockford, IL who might defend my son in a case in which he was profiled, stopped, injured and car searched without his permission. He was charged with resisting a poolice officer and poss of a small amount of marijuana.
What are the name’s of the police officers and their pictures?
People should know who these animal’s are!!
That seems to be the way cops operate, in a gang with gang mentality. A pig wouldn’t be caught dead fighting like a man one on one. They are mostly cowards who gang up on someone and beat them. Scumbag pieces of shit. These idiots need to be in jail cells to ponder on how to treat their fellow human beings. It is not good enough to know that they deal with the higher power after the fact because they will not have earthly bodies in which to feel the pain they inflict on others, all while getting a free ride and having to deal with no consequences or little reprecussions. Cops are scum and are to be considered all the same until they are given jail sentences like everyone else is. New jails should be erected for criminal cops.
And another citizen joins our ranks, with a cool 200k in the bank. Loathing of law enforcement is a disease, you catch it from the cops.
POLICE OFFICER RAPES A THREE MONTH OLD INFANT AND A ONE YEAR OLD CHILD!
When you see common sense, t., underoath, psosgt and all the other shills spew their boot-licking propaganda here on Cop Block, remember, THIS IS WHO THEY ARE, THIS IS WHAT THEY STAND FOR, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY DEFEND!
Wichita KS police officer Officer Joseph T. McGill, 28, was convicted today of committing a sexual act on a 3-month-old child and a 1-year-old child. Officer McGill pleaded guilty in January 2012 in an unrelated case to sexual battery while on duty as a police officer and was sentenced to three years probation. Those charges stemmed from separate incidents in November 2010 and February 2011. The judge set sentencing for March 1.
http://www.kansas.com/2013/01/24/2649372/former-police-officer-convicted.html
So wait a minute, the city pays out $200K, but yet three of the four perpetrators, and they are perps, are back on the job? What kind of screwed up world do we live in?
As Bugs Bunnt used to say… What a bunch of maroons. Look at the settlement. He most likely received next to nothin after any medical expenses and lawyers fees. And look at who spoke for the city. The Risk Manager. His job is to gauge the expenses. If judged that 200,000 is far cheaper than it would be to litigate this to any lenght so the settlement was quite cheap.
A settlement is is in no way an admition of guilty in any way. It’s just a business decision.
@T
Justify it any way you want. All the same could be said by the other side. Personally, I wish they’d stop settling these things and go all the way.
Wow, it’s a speeding ticket..
…attorney will get a 1/3 and the IRS another 28%… Don’t buy that yacht just yet.
Yep, and I bet the 4 cops didn’t have so much as a hangnail between the lot of them.
They beat the guy down, and the city covers for them. Because to openly admit that cops do this kind of thing regularly would be to open a financial drain hole no city could afford.
So we will keep hearing cities and police management say that the cops did nothing wrong, the taxpayers will keep footing the bill for the settlements that have to be paid even though nobody did anything wrong, and criminal cops will still patrol our streets, breaking the law both on-duty and off. The word “expatriate” looks better and better all the time.
Settlements aren’t taxable income, nimrod.
Common Sense says:
“Wow, it’s a speeding ticket..”
The officer’s actions cost the taxpayers of Manchester over a quarter of a million dollars and that’s just a speeding ticket? Remind me not to drive in your neck of the woods.
t. says:
“A settlement is is in no way an admition of guilty in any way. It’s just a business decision.”
Not exactly true, it’s an admission of guilt in the court of public opinion and those officers can now and forever be seen in their communities as guilty of police brutality.
A $200,000 admission of guilt.
POLICE OFFICER RAPES A THREE MONTH OLD INFANT AND A ONE YEAR OLD CHILD!
When you see common sense, t., underoath, psosgt and all the other shills spew their boot-licking propaganda here on Cop Block, remember, THIS IS WHO THEY ARE, THIS IS WHAT THEY STAND FOR, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY DEFEND!
Wichita KS police officer Officer Joseph T. McGill, 28, was convicted today of committing a sexual act on a 3-month-old child and a 1-year-old child. Officer McGill pleaded guilty in January 2012 in an unrelated case to sexual battery while on duty as a police officer and was sentenced to three years probation. Those charges stemmed from separate incidents in November 2010 and February 2011. The judge set sentencing for March 1.
http://www.kansas.com/2013/01/24/2649372/former-police-officer-convicted.html
Manchester PD are sick.
i seriously hope cops get tested for hiv and hep-c at least every 3 monthes, really good idea to beat your suspect bloody scrape up your knuckles or forget about that little cut on your hand and bam welcome to the world of highly contagious disease way to go fools karma IS a bitch!
not saying this man has anything like that but many people cops deal with DO!
The officers were off duty, they should be treated like everyone else, criminal charges should have been filed. Also since they were off duty the guy should have sued them directly.
From the Associated Press:
With three new settlements this week and more lawsuits pending, Chicago’s price tag for legal claims against its police force is climbing and has already surpassed the $27 million the city set aside for this year.
The City Council agreed to settle three lawsuits this week for nearly $7 million. That’s on top of the more than $32 million aldermen signed off on weeks ago in two police misconduct cases. With three more lawsuits stemming from one of the most shameful chapters in the department’s history — the torture of murder suspects by detectives under the command of former Lt. Jon Burge — still in the legal pipeline and two more federal lawsuits filed this week, the total could climb significantly higher. …
Aldermen said that while they believed the three settlements last week were fair, they’re angry that such cases continue to come before the council. They said they still hear that the officers involved either remain on the payroll or continue to receive their pension, including Burge.
“These guys are untouched and unscathed, and they keep their
jobs
by and large and they keep getting a paycheck,” said Alderman Howard Brookins Jr. “It has to stop.”
Note well that the victims that receive compensation are just a fraction of the victims out there.
The business part is always the money but the claim it is not an admission of guilt is pure horseshit. We can read between the lines and when you scratch a 6 or 7 figure check you are admitting that if a jury saw the case, the city who employs the jackboots would get their asses handed to them. there is just no way in hell any police force employeed in a city wants a jury saying “ya, you did violate that persons rights ignoring that oath you took not to”.
Plus this…I love this. I hope she personally cleans these 2 cocksuckers out and they are forced to eat the business end of their guns for being jackboots!
Federal Appeals Court Busts Police For Contempt Of Cop Arrest
Eleventh Circuit US Court of Appeals allows false arrest lawsuit to proceed against cops who arrested motorist for being up to no good.
A motorist who was less than cooperative when police performed a traffic stop on her property was vindicated Friday. A federal appeals court made it clear that taking a longer than expected time to produce identification and “being up to no good,” was not grounds for arrest.
In an unpublished ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit allowed Gina Petithomme to sue the Miami-Dade, Florida police department over the treatment she received at the hands of officers on February 6, 2009. Officers Ronald Martin and Jesus Gonzalez had been dispatched to investigate a suspicious White Dodge with two black men inside at the corner of 148th Street and Northwest 10th Place. Before reaching that location, the officers saw a silver Nissan with a piece of white paper allegedly blocking the license plate. The Nissan was parked on private property.
Petithomme, a black woman, was inside the Nissan when officers came on her property to say they were investigating a suspicious vehicle.
“What was the description of the vehicle?” Petithomme asked.
The officers did not say they were looking for a white Dodge, and asked Petithomme to produce identification and for permission to search her vehicle. Petithomme refused the search. On a third request for identification, Petithomme asked if she could go inside her home to retrieve it. It was granted, and as soon as she left the officers began searching through the Nissan. She returned and upon being asked a fourth time, she said the license must be in her car. She finally found it.
“Here’s my identification,” Petithomme said, holding within Officer Martin’s line of vision.
Enraged, Officer Martin arrested Petithomme on the spot, charging her with disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace. The officers said the woman’s attitude showed she was “up to no good.” The court of appeals disagreed.
“Plaintiff’s questions directed towards the officers cannot demonstrate arguable probable cause for disorderly conduct,” the court ruled in a per curiam decision. “Under Florida law, screaming obscenities at an officer is not sufficient to violate the statute, and thus, no reasonable officer could have concluded that asking an officer a benign question could constitute a violation of the statute.”
Petithomme successfully argued her Fourth Amendment rights had been violated with an illegal search.
“Here, plaintiff and her vehicle did not match the descriptions or the location given by dispatch,” the court found. “Thus, the only circumstances suggesting illegal activity was the white paper obstructing plaintiff’s tag. The obstructed tag, however, is insufficient to lead a reasonable person to believe that evidence relating to this infraction would be found inside the vehicle.”
Because official immunity cannot be granted to an officer who violates a constitutional right, Officers Martin and Gonzalez are now liable for damages in Petithomme’s false arrest lawsuit.
A copy of the decision is available in a 70k PDF file at the source link below.
haha their FOP is great…..Christopher, next time don’t talk shit
Thanks for the info, YankeeFan, I will look into that case.
POLICE OFFICER RAPES A THREE MONTH OLD INFANT AND A ONE YEAR OLD CHILD!
When you see common sense, t., underoath, psosgt and all the other shills spew their boot-licking propaganda here on Cop Block, remember, THIS IS WHO THEY ARE, THIS IS WHAT THEY STAND FOR, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY DEFEND!
Wichita KS police officer Officer Joseph T. McGill, 28, was convicted today of committing a sexual act on a 3-month-old child and a 1-year-old child. Officer McGill pleaded guilty in January 2012 in an unrelated case to sexual battery while on duty as a police officer and was sentenced to three years probation. Those charges stemmed from separate incidents in November 2010 and February 2011. The judge set sentencing for March 1.
http://www.kansas.com/2013/01/24/2649372/former-police-officer-convicted.html
I wish that “certains” and “tees” of this world passed the hat around amongst themselves and paid the settlement out of their own pockets. But these thug-supporting shills are not the type who put their money where their mouth is.
I think that’s what those here forget.
Chris was hammered drunk, and was ejected from the bar and decided not to go. And there were what? A dozen witnesses who all sided with the 4 off duty cops who said Chris started it, and the cops finished it.
The cops were suspended for violation of departmental rules, but an arbitrator ruled in their favor, awarded them back pay and removal of the discipline from their file(s). Chris’ charges were dropped as well.
And by his own admission, he feared a judge would toss his lawsuit out before trial, so he took the money.
@ Common Sense
So did the City of Manchester fork over 200,000 dollars out of the goodness of their hearts or did they settle it because they feared the potential of a much larger verdict had they taken it to trial?
Seems kind of odd that they would throw their officers (who supposedly did nothing wrong) under the bus for what you yourself characterized as “speeding ticket” money.
And by his own admission, he feared a judge would toss his lawsuit out before trial, so he took the money
That statement doesn’t mean, though, he believed he had a bogus claim. He could have believed, like so many ordinary americans have come to believe, that judges are pre-disposed to believe everything cops say and toss it on those grounds.
However, without following the story really and taking into account what you said, that he started it, sounds like he looked for trouble and found it. If it wasn’t cops people would care but it was and as I told T before, PR whether you like it or not is part of polic work and it seems powers to be felt the money still needed to be offered to clear this up since the guy was ebaten down by 4 off duty types.
my husband was a witness the night they beat chris into a bloody fucking pulp,when my husband approached the off duty scumbags including lt.goodno(now retrired) officer jajuga, and two other gangsters in blue and told them hey that is enough guys he is out cold Lt.Goodno told my husband to shut his fucking mouth or he would go to jail,my husband was sober and had not consumed alcohol he was there with a friend who was distraught over issues in life,Then Lt. Goodno asked my husband for Id my husband refused and was told get lost before i take your ass to jail. chris was not the instigator he should have gotten 20 times the amount the city settled for i hope the remaining three gangsters with badges get an ass beating on a weekly basis
Off duty officers should still be responsible, and not go overboard on some dumb drunk guy. There is always an alternative to smashing someone’s face. You would like to think that an officer of the law would know that. Common Sense–I agree that the guy in question was being an ass, but that doesn’t make a person not liable for jacking the guy’s face up. It sucks that the people of Manchester have to flip the bill for a dumb drunk, and four dumb cops who don’t know how to control themselves when dealing with a dumb drunk. It is funny how you say that the guys being off-duty basically voids out the fact that they are cops. If this was the case people wouldn’t get arrested by off duty cops, and they certainly wouldn’t get arrested for assault on an officer for smacking an off duty cop around. You seem to want to be cops so long as it works for you.