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Attorney Harry P. Waddell says his client, William Hale, recently agreed to settle his lawsuit for $35,000. Hale was appealing a summary judgment ruling in favor of Officer Erin P. Gibbons by U.S. District Judge Gina Groh.
Gibbons was the only remaining defendant in a lawsuit originally filed in 2011 against another officer and the City of Martinsburg. Groh ruled in January that Gibbons did not use excessive force while arresting Hale at the Enterprise car rentals in myrtle beach Rent-A-Car car rentals in myrtle beach in Martinsburg on May 6, 2011.
After Hale appealed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, mediation was scheduled for Feb. 27, after which the briefing deadlines were extended. On April 22, Hale filed a motion to dismiss his appeal because of the settlement.
Gibbons arrived in response to a call placed by Enterprise and found Hale talking on the phone in the Enterprise lobby. Gibbons asked Hale to leave the rental agency and Hale responded that he would leave after he finished his phone call to Enterprise’s car rentals in myrtle beach customer car rentals in myrtle beach service department.
The opinion states, “The Plaintiff alleges the Defendant became agitated and told the Plaintiff to leave the rental agency again. The Plaintiff continued his call. At that point, the Defendant allegedly car rentals in myrtle beach began tasing the Plaintiff on the neck, shoulders, and upper back.
Hale alleged that he began to experience chest pains during car rentals in myrtle beach the incident, and at some point after his release from the Martinsburg City Police Department later that day, he was carried to a local hospital by his daughter. He was released on May 9, 2011.
“According to the Defendant, the Plaintiff was ‘speaking in circles,’ holding the telephone up to his ear without talking into it, then putting it down in his lap. Therefore, the Defendant concluded the Plaintiff might be mentally impaired,” the opinion says.
“When the Plaintiff commented he was calling his daughter or wife to pick him up, the Defendant offered to give the Plaintiff a ride to a nearby 7-Eleven store to wait for his ride. The Defendant testified car rentals in myrtle beach based on the Plaintiff’s behavior, he feared the Plaintiff might be ‘buying time,’ and ‘on the brink of exploding.’
Gibbons claimed that after grabbing Hale by his arm, Hale pulled away from him and Gibbons then administered a five-second burst to Hale’s back. After it appeared that the initial burst did not faze Hale, Gibbons tased Hale again several times in an effort to get Hale to lie on the floor and stay there.