"Safer if he had ... been hit by a car": Court awards Scott $100k in legal costs

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Safer to get hit by a car than have a run in with the NSW Police.  Magistrate Jennifer Giles awarded Canberra Raiders centre Curtis Scott $100,792.30 in legal costs after she likened his treatment by police to "gratuitous violence off the dark web" in Downing Centre Local Court on Friday. It prompted Scott's lawyer Sam Macedone to hope NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller would reconsider his sympathy for a "couple of cowboys" who were giving 99.9 per cent of police officers a bad name.

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