Opinion ID: 771471
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Fourteenth Amendment - Equal Protection

Text: 12 The district court dismissed Mrs. Weeks' equal protection claim, finding that the lone comment attributed to Deputy Longbottom--that Ray Weeks was a white man in the wrong neighborhood--was not sufficient evidence to raise an inference of racial discrimination and Mrs. Weeks had therefore failed to state an equal protection claim. We agree. There is no evidence in this record that Deputy Longbottom would have called an ambulance for Ray Weeks if he had been black instead of white or that in sending Weeks on his way rather than summoning medical help or taking him into custody, Longbottom was motivated by racial or any other constitutionally impermissible animus. In the absence of such evidence, Mrs. Weeks has failed to state an equal protection claim.