Legal proceedings lasted over two years (two years, two months, and seven days to be exact,) over what one supporter lovingly referred to as a terrible interaction between four cops, one activist living with significant disabilities, and a dumpster. This morning of Wednesday the 7th of August 2013 brought what was for many a none too soon ending.
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| Courtroom photo from Wednesday 7 August 2013 Status Hearing |
Scott accepted a plea bargain in exchange for modest fines, and explained it
was an Alford Plea, under which he maintains his innocence but believes
that his cause wouldn't stand up under trial by jury.
Scott hopes to have the guilty record expunged as soon as possible.
While on the stand, with the help of an interpreter, Miss Brenda House,
Scott explained his belief that had the OPD vehicles and/or officers'
uniforms been outfitted with audio/video surveillance devices, he would
not have had to undergo the ordeal. He also explained that his hearing
is perfectly okay. Scott's inability to speak stems from an assault he
suffered in 1984 when he was hitchhiking and mugged by a group that
picked him up. He nearly lost his life in that attack, and suffered
serious head injury, and lost the physical ability to form words, due to
physical damage to his speaking apparatus. (*update, Scott writes in to correct: "
the
reason for my Mute-ness, ...It's
not that my 'talk-box' got broken, but rather that I suffered a severe head-injury, which effected my brain's speech-center.")
