Please excuse the brevity here, but I thought this worthy of a diary. :P
The Houston Chronicle is reporting:
Talk about your Monday from hell. Not only did Bridgett Nickerson-Boyd's car break down on her way to work, but when she pulled over to the side of the freeway, a sheriff's deputy named Mark Goad pulled behind her, wrote her a ticket for driving on the shoulder, decided he did not like her attitude and arrested her, followed her to the hospital when her suddenly racing heart prompted a call to paramedics, then arrested her again after she was treated by doctors and took her to jail.
To make matters worse, Boyd claims in a lawsuit that she was forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh "make derogatory comments about black people" all the way to the jail.
Because of the incident, which occurred on Oct. 4, 2010, Boyd filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Goad and Harris County alleging defamation, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The magistrate who saw her while jailed apparently agreed that Boyd had not committed a crime and her arrest was without probable cause and dismissed all charges. No comments yet from authorities regarding the lawsuit.
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