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- Lundberg v. County of Humboldt was a United States District Court for the Northern District of California decision issued on April 29, 2005, which arose out of a protest dispute in 1997 between environmental activists for the Headwaters Forest and the Sheriff's Deputies of Humboldt County, California. During three protests in the Fall of 1997, police officers tortured activists by swabbing pepper spray in the eyes of eight activists practicing nonviolent resistance. The action taken by the police was later unanimously ruled to be excessive force and a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The jurors in the trial were clearly shaken after watching a video of the victims sitting helplessly while police pulled their heads back by the hair and dabbed the chemical in their eyes over their screams, and the plaintiffs, who had experienced it and then had to watch it in the two preceding trials, had to suffer through it once more. Some of the victims were not even 18 years old. The video demonstrated the claims of the plaintiffs that police were inflicting punishment on them while they were clearly engaged in peaceful protest and were not a threat to anyone. An expert witness testified at the trial that the incident represented a "classic case of police brutality" and "grotesque abuse". One of the plaintiffs described that one of the clear messages from the trial was about "police brutality and torture and what's acceptable behavior of one human being to another." On May 6, 2017, William Honsal, one of the defendants named in the lawsuit, became interim Sheriff of Humboldt County after being appointed by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. Honsal was reelected in 2018 and in 2022, both times unopposed without any other candidates on the ballot. (en)
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- Lundberg v. County of Humboldt was a United States District Court for the Northern District of California decision issued on April 29, 2005, which arose out of a protest dispute in 1997 between environmental activists for the Headwaters Forest and the Sheriff's Deputies of Humboldt County, California. During three protests in the Fall of 1997, police officers tortured activists by swabbing pepper spray in the eyes of eight activists practicing nonviolent resistance. The action taken by the police was later unanimously ruled to be excessive force and a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. (en)
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