Reply #8: How about a side bet?

[one-eyed fat man]

How do you think the not guilty verdict will play out in the civil lawsuit?

The police started back pedaling almost immediately after the incident. They admitted their officers were untrained and ignorant of the law.

Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams filed charges against Fiorino for “reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct” — two charges frequently employed because there’s no explicit law on the books for “contempt of cop,” AFTER the profanity laced recording of police officers screaming and threatening Fiorino went viral. The District Attorney and the police, ostensibly guardians of the rule of law, thus retreated into thuggish wife-beater logic: “you know that you provoke me when you mouth off like that, so why did you make me hit you and make a scene?”

He was in the right, legally, but he was also very lucky not to be shot, or tased, or beaten into a coma, or sodomized with a broom handle, or arrested immediately for some invented offense. Now the malicious prosecution in retribution for posting the account on YouTube will go in front of another jury. How much will classic Philadelphia "thuggery with a badge" cost the taxpayers this time?