This is Handel on the Law, marginal legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case.

This is a story, a case out of Northern California in which this woman who was a shoplifter,

won nearly a million dollar settlement from this small city in Northern California called Brentwood.

And this is after a police dog bit her, tore at her scalp, and the police at that time were trying to take her into custody. So, I mean,

she's running away. She's just committed a crime. Turns out she had stolen a car. She and a couple

of friends during the chase, she rams into the police car that's chasing her somehow.

And so they bail out of the car and they start running and she is now hidden, tries to hide behind a bush.

So out comes the police officer with his canine, German Shepherd, named Marco.

And there she was behind the bush.

And here is why the city settled for a million dollars.

Because Marco, the dog, came tearing around the bush while she was hiding and attacked her. And she sued saying, you didn't even give me a chance to come out of the bush.

You didn't warn me.

You didn't say come out with your hands up.

You didn't say I have a dog here that's going to eat you if you didn't come out. Nothing. The dog just came around and attacked her and she was pretty severely injured. Now, the police chief said, oh no, this is legitimate. The actions of this cop were justified. So he then said, oh, no, this is legitimate. The actions of this cop were justified.

So he then said, well, the city decided to settle the suit to avoid further litigation and legal costs.

So Talmika Bates gets $967,000.

This happened two, three years ago.

And on the body cam, because police now wear body cam, you can hear her screaming, oh my God,

please get your dog as the dog was attacking her.

And the cops, the body cam, someone else is seeing pulling the dog's leash and she is yelling, my whole skin is off.

You know, usually people who shoplift and then steal cars shoplift ten thousand dollars worth of

stuff i mean that's no small amount of shoplifting you think the police were justified but on

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