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“Cat Lady” Beverly Roberts seem in police footage throughout her arrest in 2022. Roberts, together with good friend and fellow cat-lover Mary Alston, have sued town of Wetumpka, Alabama over the incident. YouTube screengrab Law&Crime Network.
If solely Bob Barker have been alive to see it.
In Alabama, two girls have sued metropolis officers claiming their makes an attempt to soundly management an exploding feral cat inhabitants by feeding, capturing and neutering discovered felines on their very own dime, led to their wrongful arrest and imprisonment on “bogus” costs in violation of their First Amendment rights.
In the lawsuit reviewed Wednesday by Law&Crime, the ladies, Beverly Roberts, 86, and Mary Alston, 61 — who shortly turned often known as the “Cat Ladies” within the press following their 2022 arrest — allege that what occurred to them that June in Wetumpka was finished beneath “patently absurd” pretenses and was the results of their having angered metropolis officers up to now with their protest and criticism.
Video of the arrest is available right here, courtesy of Law&Crime:
Both of the ladies, their lawyer writes within the 17-page lawsuit filed in Alabama’s Middle District, had a historical past of complaining publicly concerning the metropolis’s failure to implement varied animal security laws and their arrest was retaliation, plain and easy. Beyond attempting to manage the native cat inhabitants, the ladies additionally pushed for metropolis officers to extra commonly implement an area ban on the “chaining” of dogs. The follow can usually lead to strangulation.
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