Photo courtesy Pima County Sheriff’s Department.Last November, James Patock, seen at right, was arrested after a Park Police search of his vehicle, parked on Jefferson Drive, yielded some guns and led to a temporary closure of the Mall, as well as at least one evacuation of a nearby museum. Now, according to a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Patock is seeking redress for “defamation of character, official and police malfeasance, and misconduct, negligence, issuing false statements, and fraud” — the cost of which he estimates at $20 million.
Patock — who was widely alleged to hold a long-standing grudge against former President George W. Bush in interviews with his former neighbors after his arrest — claims in his part-scribbled, long-rambling filing that the “news media made no attempt to provide a fair and balanced picture of what was happening” during his ordeal. Patock also blames the news media for conveniently ignoring the fact that, while he was being held, “inmates were bombarding [him] with human excrement.” Patock’s list of named defendants is nothing if not thorough, naming, among several others, Fox News, CNN, the Washington Post, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the United States Department of the Interior, Mayor Vince Gray, the entire D.C. Council, the Metropolitan Police Department’s bomb squad, and even an anonymous source living in his Patock’s stomping grounds of Flintlock, Arizona.
Read the entire thing below, if you dare.
