"She just went into offensive mode," Jackson's mother, Kathleen Jackson, said last week. "The bus was coming up the street, and the next thing he knows, he's in handcuffs."
Jackson was arrested and charged with aggravated assault of a police officer and related offenses. But all charges were dropped a few months later after Carter failed to attend four preliminary hearings, according to Jackson's attorneys.
The arrest, however, cost him his job.
"They didn't want somebody with an active criminal case, especially when his mother had to call UPS and say he won't be in today because he's been arrested," said Jackson's lawyer, Leonard Villari. "That leaves a stigma."
Jackson's lawsuit is nearly identical to an active suit filed last year by former bartender Geovanni Tanner, 26, who says Carter and two other officers assaulted him in University City, then filed "fabricated charges" of aggravated assault and other offenses, claiming that Tanner had attacked them.
The officers testified against Tanner at his preliminary hearing, but the District Attorney's Office later dropped all charges. Tanner also had trouble finding a job as a result of the arrest.
"It's disgraceful," Villari said.
In May 2005, less than two years into her career as a police officer, Carter reportedly assaulted her neighbor, Asia Kane, then attempted to have Kane "falsely arrested" for attacking Carter, according to her police personnel file.
An Internal Affairs investigation ended with Carter's being suspended for 20 days for conduct unbecoming an officer, records show.
"She made this bogus story up, like I tried to attack her," Kane said yesterday, adding that she still suffers from nerve damage caused when Carter smashed her head into a car bumper.
