"...send a message to them that revenge beatings and dishonesty do not have to be a part of this."

Excessive use of forces doesn't have to be part of the booking procedure, but it sure is damn fun, and quite the bargain it would appear.

It's just too damned bad I wasn't on that jury. I would've given Evans faaar more than a measly $500! Not so much b/c he's such a great guy [which he probably isn't], but anything, ANYTHING i could've done to break that cowardly pig Richard Hathaway!

Hathaway didn't have to pay anything we the tax payers in Multnomah County payed Hathaway to be in court. He profited off of beating up this guy.

No, you're right Dan. Typically, these pigs don't have to pay a damned cent for this! They can skip court at will & lie their asses off on the stand, & not pay ANY conpansation on the rare occasion wrong-doing was found on their part. You all heard it from this pig Hathaway himself - he ewent home to have a drink... AFTER he was found guily of beating a man in custody!

Once again a prime example of whats wrong with the U.S. justice system. We pay the system to waste time. With cases like this is, $500 justice? How much money do you think it cost to come to the conclusion that Hathaway was guilty? How do you think it'll effect his career? Does anyone honestly think that this case will have any effect on the future?
Nope, Chalk this one up as a loss.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.I read your profile today and it was so good to me.i feel you are the only one missing in my entire life so i decided to stop on and let you know that i am interested to be a friend first.

One thing I want to add here is that the jury was instructed to take into consideration the fact that the Mult County Detention Center is an open booking area. And the folks who have been arrested, after being searched for drugs and weapons of course, are waltzing around without restraints. There is an open seating area with a television and phone; the inmates are kept in a waiting room that looks more like a doctor's office than jail. SO, with that being said, any potentially upcooperative inmate must be dealt with in a swift and efficient manner as to avoid possible riots, etc. The video was ~ 30 seconds long. And the actions of the Officers was made based on conclusions they had drawn in a matter of split seconds. It may have seemes excessiver after the fact, but we must remember that it is their JOB to protect themselves and other people from dangerous situations. And I think that is what they were trying to do here.