today, he s a professional police officer. reporter: the same police official told cnn pantaleo had over 300 arrests with very few complaints, adding that he s not a hot head but he has been at the center of racially motivated cases before. three men have filed lawsuits against him alleging unawful racially motivated arrests. one case, march 2012, two black men say they were forced out of their vehicle, handcuffs and strip searched on the public street. the lawsuit alleges they were forced to pull their pants and underwear down, squat and cough. later at the police station, the men were subjected to a second humiliating strip search and forced to lift their genitals. the charges against them were eventually thrown out. they settled with the city earlier this year for $30,000. in the second case, a man accused officer pantaleo of misrepresenting the facts to substantiate charges. the charges against this suspect were also dismissed. the man s lawsuit against officer pantaleo is still
have filed lawsuit against him alleging unlawful racially motivated arrests. in one case from march 2012, two black men said they were forced out of their vehicle, hand cuffed and strip searched on the public street. the lawsuit alleges they were forced to pull their pants and underwear down, squat and cough. then later at the police station, the men were subjected to a second humiliating strip search and forced to lift their genitals. the charge against them were eventually thrown out. they settled with the city earlier this year for $30,000. in the second case, a man accused officer pantaleo of misrepresenting the facts to substantiate charges. the charges against this suspect were also dismissed. the man s lawsuit against officer pantaleo is still pending. and the grand jury took six months, of course, to figure everything out since the incident.
fighters from the royal air force. it then heads south, over the eastern part of england, toward stansted airport in the southeast of the country, and landed there a short time ago. and that s a lot of facts about what happened, what we don t know is why, other than there was an incident on board. that can range the gamut from full-scale terrorist activity, right the way through to drunken abusive passengers, who caused a threat to the aircraft. and would it be possible, and a lot of what happened in recent days in london with the terrible murder that took place on the public street, might authorities in britain be a little, i don t know, nervous? and that s maybe why a british fighter jet escorted this plane to another airport in stansted? absolutely no doubt, none