Shea v. Porter

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

SAYLOR IV, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action arising out of an arrest by an officer of the Massachusetts State Police. On June 5, 2007, plaintiff Beth Shea was driving on a residential street in Milton when a woman stepped into the street and waved her arms at her. Shea thought that the woman, Tracy Gor-finkle, was in trouble; Gorfinkle thought Shea was driving too fast and wanted her to slow down. Shea stopped her car. A state trooper named R. Bradford Porter, who was a friend and neighbor of Gorfin-kle’s, was on the sidewalk. He…