Carter v. City of Natchitoches

h DECUIR, Judge.

The City of Natchitoches appeals a trial court judgment granting monetary damages to David Carter in compensation for his unlawful arrest, detention and physical as well as verbal abuse by police officers of the City of Natchitoches. For the reasons *187that follow, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.

FACTS

On October 8, 1995, David Carter was arrested at his home. This was quite shocking in that, for the previous sixty-eight years, he had led an exemplary life. Unfortunately, the same could not be said of Carter’s adult son, Ben. Ben was well known to police officers as a…