The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that a Honolulu police arrest of a sober man at a sobriety checkpoint has led them to an investigation showing similar instances of police misconduct in the Aloha State to meet quotas, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
On Nov. 7, 2023, Ammon Fepuleai was arrested at a sobriety checkpoint after blowing 0.00 and passing a field sobriety test. After looking into Fepuleai’s case, the ACLU of Hawaii said it found 127 other cases of people from 2022-24 who also blew a 0.00. Roughly nine in ten were not charged with a crime or traffic violation.
“The bottom line is this totally undermines the public’s trust in law enforcement — not to mention that false arrests are unconstitutional,” the ACLU of Hawaii’s legal director, Wookie Kim, said.
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