Question

A.J. is a minority who is walking his dog in a city that has an ordinance to make sure people clean up after their dogs. Of course A.J. has never seen this ordinance enforced, so he just continues walking after his dog defecates. He doesn't know that a rookie patrolman has been watching and observed him fail to clean up his dog's waste. A.J. walks around the corner to find a whole wall of freshly painted graffiti and spray paint cans on the ground. He picks one up to put it in the trash just as the patrolman is walking around the corner to give A.J. an ordinance violation ticket.

A.J. is suing the rookie patrolman for defamation of character and racial profiling. He thinks that the patrolman assumed that he was the perpetrator of the graffiti because he is a minority. What can a state court judge do for A.J. in his defamation case?

Answer 1

Nothing, this is a civil matter

Step-by-step explanation:

A. J., a minority is being fined by a patrolman for violating an ordinance in the area. A. J. has a misassumption that the patrol man fine him because the patrol man saw him with the spray paint cans in his hand near the graffiti made on the wall. A.J. believes that because he belongs to minority, the patrol man id doing racial discrimination on him. So A.J. sues the patrolman on defamation case.

The state court judge can do nothing on this matter because A. J. has been fined for not obeying the ordinance of cleaning the dog's wastes and not for the paint cans that he held near the graffiti wall.