Harden v. San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District
California Court of Appeal
[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
MERRILL, J.
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) and Benjamin K. Dabalos (Dabalos), defendants below, appeal from a judgment entered against them following a jury verdict finding them liable for false arrest and imprisonment of respondent George Harden (Harden). We affirm.
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Harden, a Black man, first came to work for BART as a police officer on or about September 25, 1972. Prior to that time, Harden had worked in the military police as an enlistee in the Air Force (1961-1969), and as a deputy in the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department (1969-1972).
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