SEATTLE — Seattle city attorneys are asking a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit arising from the highly-publicized case of an officer stomping on a detained man.
KIRO 7 Eyewitness News was the first to televise the video of the April 2010 incident in which Seattle Officer Shandy Cobane threatened to “beat the Mexican piss” out of the man and stomped on the man’s head and hand.
The motion filed Tuesday said a frame-by-frame analysis of video shows that Cobane did not kick the Latino man in the head. It also contends the language Cobane used was meant to control the man, not to offend anyone.
Cobane was ultimately suspended for 30 days for the remark.
The said victim in the case, Martin Monetti, filed a suit in Seattle last year against the city, Cobane and another officer, Mary L. Woollum, who was involved in the incident.
Police said they detained Monetti and two others in connection with two armed robberies in the parking lot of the China Harbor Restaurant in South Lake Union, where Monetti said he had been celebrating his birthday.
Monetti and another man were released.
In the motion, city attorneys said though Monetti was not arrested or charged, there was evidence he was involved in the robberies.
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