HEARING SET FOR TUESDAY.
LAWYER SAYS STATE
ATTORNEY’S INVESTIGATOR
WHO HANDCUFFED DRIVER
AFTER MAKING TRAFFIC STOP
MAY HAVE VIOLATED MAN’S
CIVIL RIGHTS
STATE ATTORNEY WARD SAYS
HIS CHIEF INVESTIGATOR
CONDUCTED INQUIRY INTO
TRAFFIC INCIDENT— BUT DID
NOT WRITE A REPORT OR TAKE
ANY NOTES
by Dennis Reeves Cooper
Last week, we published
a story about Andrew Kempel,
a 35-year-old investigator in the
state attorney’s office (SAO),
who chased down Everette Wilson,
45, handcuffed him, called
the Key West Police Department
for backup— then wrote Wilson
a traffic citation for driving the
wrong way down a one-way
street in Bahama Village.
We don’t make this stuff
up.
Wilson said that, as he
was parking his car near the
Whitehead Street apartment he
shares with his wife and two
grandchildren, a man wearing a
gun approached his car, opened
the door on the driver’s side
and, with his hand on his gun,
demanded that Wilson get out
of the car.
Wilson said that, as soon
as he stepped out of the car, the
man handcuffed him. He said
that when he protested, the man
told him to shut his mouth.
According to the police
report, when the Key West cops
showed up on the scene and
asked Kempel why Wilson was
being arrested, he told them that
Wilson was not under arrest.
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