Where in Tulsa can I find an Attorney to sue the Tulsa Police Department?

Question

1. Was pulled over for speeding but the officer did not elaborate on how fast my roommate was going or what the speed limit was. My roommates friend was the driver, but she was a minor with no license. My roommate was ill enough to not be able to drive in a safe manner but she had to get home before her curfew. 3 witnesses can verify that he was ill enough to be unable to drive the required distance to get her home.

2. Was given an illegible ticket.

3. Was treated with upmost disrespect by the Officer.

4. Whilst being searched, his arms were pulled so forcefully by the Officer that it caused a great deal of pain.

5. The car was towed for "Expired Tags" but the car was just recently brought to Oklahoma from Texas, and therefore did not yet have new tags. (Was only in Ok for less than two weeks). The officer had no actual grounds to tow the car.

6. Due to not having a cell phone, my roommate was told by the officer to run across the busy highway (which is illegal in any state) in order to get to a payphone.

6. He had no ride home, so he was forced to walk 7 miles home in freezing weather and little to keep him warm.

7. I was lucky to get home just when he did. My roommate collapsed when he got home and could not get up. He was violently ill at the time of this event, so was in turn even sicker once he got home. 3 witnesses can verify that he was ill.

Answer 1

1) You have no grounds for a suit, if your room mate was THAT ill, then you should have requested EMS.



2) No grounds for a suit



3) No grounds for a suit



4) No grounds for a suit



5) If the tags were expired, the tags were expired, makes no different what state it was registered in. He DID in fact have grounds to impound the car. Two weeks is plenty of time to register the car in OK.



6) No grounds for a suit, if it is illegal to cross a highway directly, he could have found another way around



7) No grounds for a suit, it is not the officers fault he didn't have a ride or a cell phone, nor is it the officers responsibility to give him a ride



8) Still no grounds for a suit

Answer 2

1. Speeding w/o a license. No excuse. It doesn't matter that the only one with a license was sick, your roommate needed to find a legit driver to get him home. Officer did nothing wrong issuing the ticket for illegal behavior. Even if the person was without a license was DDing for everyone else, the ticket is still going to be issued. Aside from the fact that the driver was unlicensed, she was speeding. Trying to get home before curvew isn't an excuse.



2. According to you. Just b/c you can't read it, doesn't make it invalid, and even if it did, not grounds for a suit. Dismissal of the ticket, MAYBE, but a suit isn't the legal remedy here.



3. Not grounds for a suit, he isn't your friend, and isn't legally obligated to be polite or show you respect, chances are it was the people in the car who started with the disrespectful behavior.



4. Officer is given great amount of discretion in performing searches, and there is no way to prove this claim anyway. No grounds for a suit.



5. Not an excuse. Without tags, the car cannot be legally on the road. You had an unlicensed car driven by an unlicensed driver. Common sense dictates the car gets towed. He did have grounds to tow. The officer has more knowledge of the law than you. Just because you think something doesn't make it true.



6 (a and b). How did the friend get home??? Seems like a ride was able to get there to pick up the driver. I doubt the cop forced him across the highway, he might have suggested it, and if so the cop MAY have acted improperly, but I have a feeling you are leaving a lot out of this story and what actually happened.



7. Sounds like he was sick prior to any of this, the officer didn't cause the illness, and it would be impossible to prove in court that he got sicker as a direct result of this incident.

Answer 3

You're wrong on so many levels it's impossible to know where to begin. You will not find an attorney in Tulsa, or anywhere else for that matter, who would touch this case for any amount of money.

Answer 4

Your roommate should have made use of a wonder service called a "taxi".



It's not the police department's fault he didn't call a cab.

Answer 5

You have no case at all. You had an unlicensed driver, speeding with bad tags on the car.

Answer 6

First write a letter to the Chief of Police in that city, detailing everything that you put here. Next contact the ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union which is usually the entity that investigates the kind of conduct you describe.

Answer 7

Call your County Bar, they can give you the names of a few attorneys that deal with your type of case.