One of Gov. Noem’s three priorities for the FY2022 budget is restoring and reinvigorating infrastructure. District 24 senator-elect Mary Duvall, who previously served in the House, will chair the Senate Transportation Committee. She hopes some of the one-time dollars are used to upgrade some of the state’s aging roads and bridges.
Along with reinvigorating infrastructure, Noem’s other two priorities for the 2022 state budget are paying off 2010 debt and strengthening communities.
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Body-worn camera footage from federal lawsuit filed against El Paso County sheriff by woman who claims excessive force was used during a traffic stop and arrest for resisting. Charges later dismissed.
A Pennsylvania woman needed spinal fusion surgery after two El Paso County sheriff’s deputies and a sergeant used “unreasonable and excessive force” when they slammed her to the ground, tased her in the buttocks and slammed her head in the back of a patrol car after a traffic stop went awry, a pending federal lawsuit contends.
The lawsuit states that a body camera on one of the deputies that was inadvertently left on filmed the deputies, one of them smirking, later talking about how one of them “power-bombed her through the concrete,” with the other deputy stating he had “tased her in the butth -.”