You’ll never believe the city of Charlotte’s defense in the civil suit brought by two of Marcus Jackson’s alleged sexual assault victims.
“If Mr. Jackson had not been hired, he may very well have assaulted these individuals,” claimed senior assistant city attorney R. Harcourt Fulton in Mecklenburg County Superior Court, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, Planet Earth.
Superior Court Judge Lane Williamson — a former defense attorney and a Bev Perdue appointee — bought this line of reasoning and opted to send the matter of a possible civil rights violation by Jackson to a jury.
In other words, the city and Judge Williamson believe it is an open question whether handing Marcus Jackson a badge, a gun, a squad car, and full powers of arrest enabled him in any way to allegedly commit multiple acts of sexual assault while on duty and acting as a member of the city’s duly sworn police force.
That Marcus Jackson, private citizen, in a t-shirt, flip-flops, on a moped, armed only with evil intent could have compelled women to pull over to the side of the road, get out of their vehicles, and submit themselves — without resistance — to his gropings. That male companions of the female victims would have stood by as Marcus Jackson — private citizen, alone, unarmed, and without the power to call down the entire multi-billion dollar boot-heel of state and local law enforcement on their heads — assaulted their girlfriends.
That the city of Charlotte could not possibly be at fault because ipso facto the corporate entity that is the city is The City of Charlotte, and The City of Charlotte is never, ever wrong about anything. Ever.
