Oakland Police Pays Man $175 for Planting a Gun on Him

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal jury has awarded $175,000 to a parolee who said an Oakland police officer planted a gun on him.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported the San Francisco panel made the award Monday to Lorenzo Hall after a weeklong trial.

Hall spent nearly two years behind bars for illegally possessing a weapon after he was arrested in 2006 while attending a wake for his aunt in East Oakland.

Police said they acted on an informant’s tip and found a gun in his waistband.

Hall’s attorney, Ben Nisenbaum, says the gun belonged to another man who had hidden it in a nearby car.

Hall spent 22 months in jail before the case was dropped in 2008.

A spokesman for Oakland City Attorney John Russo had no immediate comment to the Chronicle about the verdict.

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*smh* BUT ATLEAST THEY GOT CAUGHT THIS TIME! AND $175K IS NOTHING! SPENDING A DAY IN JAIL IS WORTH THAT MUCH!

@p0rsche_carrera