You may not remember her name, but you probably remember Patricia Konie as the lady who was slammed to the ground and had her gun stolen from her by authorities as they forcibly removed from her home “For Her Own Good� (video here) during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Well, she’s filed suit:
A New Orleans woman is recovering from surgery this week from injuries resulting from when she was roughed-up by authorities who forced her to leave her home a week after Hurricane Katrina. Patricia Konie, 58, has filed a Federal lawsuit over the injuries and other violations of civil rights.
“My client was severely injured in a needless removal from her home,” stated attorney Ashton O’Dwyer. “Patricia Konie had food, plenty of water, and a roof over her head. The police who illegally entered her home and imposed their will on a frail, middle-aged female should have been out apprehending armed, male looters instead.”
Konie was greeting a reporter and photographer from a San Francisco TV station and a journalist from the London Times when police unexpectedly entered her home. When she refused to leave as ordered, they confiscated a firearm used for defense and according to Konie, “slammed” her to the ground, both displacing and fracturing her left shoulder.
After remaining in custody for several hours without charges being filed against her by authorities, she was flown alone to South Carolina where she remained for more than a month before returning to her native New Orleans.
A Federal lawsuit was filed claiming that authorities assaulted and knocked her to the ground when she refused to leave her New Orleans home on September 7th, 2005. Konie also alleges numerous civil rights violations including assault and battery by police in her suit against several Louisiana and California State Police officers who took her into custody. She also alleges authorities violated her Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
There is no word of a fund to donate to so that Second Amendment supporters can help her with legal costs, but if that comes out, I’ll forward that on.
Found at Ravenwood’s
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Speaking of Pro-Second Amendment cases, Jason of the FishOrMan blog has won his open carry case in Ellensburg, Washington
The bottom line is I WON MY APPEAL against the conviction of “warranting alarm” for open carrying a handgun in the city of Ellensburg.
Yeah, that’s right. The Ellensburg case is dismissed, conviction over-turned. The city code was ruled inconsistent with the state version and preemption applied. The law was repealed!
He did this without any support of any of the 2A groups either locally or nationally and just a few monetary donations from the blogosphere. While I may not agree with his views of LEOs, this is great news and I congratulate him on making the gov’t have to back off, at least temporarily.
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And last but not least, yesterday was Jerry the Geek’s first blogoversary. Swing on by the one stop shop for all things IPSC and wish him a happy one!