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FANG Raid Results In Big Settlement For Club Patrons ANN ARBOR, MI (Michigan Radio) - The Flint Police Department will pay $900,000.00 to settle a lawsuit.

The class action suit was filed after the Flint Area Narcotics Group raided Club What's Next on March 20th, 2005.

ACLU Attorney Michael Pitt says undercover officers did buy drugs from a few people at the bar that night.

But he says police then detained over 100 other patrons.

"The law enforcement officers who arrived that night in force were required to do what's called an individualized probable cause search," says Pitt, "and not just assume that everybody that was in the building was engaged in some type of criminal activity. That's what they failed to do. Many innocent people were strip searched and in some case body cavity searched."

The settlement also requires police training and allows the ACLU to monitor the department for a year.
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