If you want to talk about abuse of power, let’s talk about municipal court judge James Kimmel.  This guy had a teenager, 19-year-old Aaron Henson, arrested and held for eight hours by police.  The reason?  Overdue DVD at the library.  Seriously.  When Aaron didn’t return the library’s copy of the martial arts romance film House Of Flying Daggers, Judge Kimmel got mad.  So, he used his judge powers in the city of Littleton, Colorado, to issue a summons to bring the kid to court.  When the kid didn’t show up, that summons became an arrest warrant and when Henson got nabbed for speeding, he got dragged into the police station and detained.

Not only did Aaron move and miss the citation, the arrest warrant was issued a week after the DVD was returned to the library, as library records would attest to.  A simple phone call by the judge would have prevented all this from actually happening.  Still, it did happen, and Judge Kimmel’s reward for his insane abuse of power is a prompt firing by the Littleton City Council.

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