The following has been blatantly cut and pasted without permission at
all from the web site of the United States
Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, for which infraction I am
sure they will forgive me for since it is not a quote of their entire article
but only a part therefrom, AND I am quoting the source, of course.
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any
law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the
Constitution or laws of the United States. For the purpose of Section 242, acts
under "color of law" include acts not only done by federal, state, or local
officials within the their lawful authority, but also acts done beyond the
bounds of that official's lawful authority, if the acts are done while the
official is purporting to or pretending to act in the performance of his/her
official duties. Persons acting under color of law within the meaning of this
statute include police officers, prisons guards and other law enforcement
officials, as well as judges, care providers in public health facilities, and
others who are acting as public officials. It is not necessary that the crime
be motivated by animus toward the race, color, religion, sex, handicap,
familial status or national origin of the victim.
The offense is punishable by a range of imprisonment up to a life term, or the
death penalty, depending upon the circumstances of the crime, and the resulting
injury, if any.
TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation,
or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,
Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or
immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United
States, ... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
year, or both; and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in
violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or
threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under
this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results
from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include
kidnaping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to
commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under
this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be
sentenced to death.
Why is this important to me?
Remember Detective Mayo, at GPD, and how he sabotaged my case? He denied me my
right to do anything about the crime, to sue anyone for what they did, to file
charges against anyone...because he used his power in the law to deliberately
delay subpoenaing the IP logs that I had asked him to subpoena which would have
contained information which could have helped. By denying me those logs, the
perpetrators could claim no evidence.
Remember Detective Metz, at UPD, and how he kept me out of the loop, and
instead went to the person I had said was the pertetrator, and asked HIM for
all information regarding the case, giving him heads up about what was going
on, allowing him to prepare alibu, defense, to erase evidence, and do any of a
number of other things to prevent me from being able to nail him? the enttire
UPD department did that to me, in fact. In fact, the went to the Faculty
Advisor and cooperated with him fully, as well, while leaving me out of all
conversations. TThe Faculy Advisor suggested that I was the problem and from
that point on I was considered the bad guy and left out of all communications.
In so doing, my civil rights were violated, and I was even treated like I was
the criminal and the criminal was treatd like the victim.
How about the way that the Alachua County Office of Emergency Management
handled complaints about me? There is a "Color of Office" variation, there.
They convinced an officer of the law in GPD to deliberately sabotage an ongoing
harassment case that I had filed by convincing that officer that I was not
the victim but the problem.
How about the way that the National Weather Service handled complaints about
me? There is a Color of Office variation, there, too. They convinced the
Alachua County Office of Emergency Management that I was a problem. And
again, this in turn caused ACOEM to interfere with the GPD harassment
investigation and their words convinced the GPD officer that I was the problem,
not a victim, and that changed the officer's course of handling the situation.
Was I kept in the loop? allowed to participate in any meetings held about me
and Alachua County SKYWARN - wherein decisions were to be made about my handling
and that of Alachua County SKYWARN? No, I was deliberately left OUT of the
loop.
My rights were violated in a number of ways...all around.