AJ Is a Minority Who Is Walking His Dog in a City

question 19

Multiple Choice

A.J. is a minority who is walking his dog in a city that has an ordinance to make sure people clean up after their dogs. Of course A.J. has never seen this ordinance enforced, so he just continues walking after his dog defecates. He doesn't know that a rookie patrolman has been watching and observed him fail to clean up his dog's waste. A.J. walks around the corner to find a whole wall of freshly painted graffiti and spray paint cans on the ground. He picks one up to put it in the trash just as the patrolman is walking around the corner to give A.J. an ordinance violation ticket.
-A.J. is suing the rookie patrolman for defamation of character and racial profiling. He thinks that the patrolman assumed that he was the perpetrator of the graffiti because he is a minority. What can a state court judge do for A.J. in his defamation case

• A)Throw the case out of court
• B)Reduce the sentence
• C)Nothing, this is a civil matter
• D)Get the officer to apologize

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