RAW STORY
The family of an unarmed black man shot dead by Los Angeles police accused the officers of violating his civil rights in a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday and was seeking $75 million in damages from the city.
Police have said two officers shot and killed 25-year-old Ezell Ford, described by a family lawyer as mentally challenged, in mostly poor South Los Angeles on Aug. 11 after he struggled with an officer and tried to grab his gun.
The family attorney, Steven Lerman, disputed the police narrative of how Ford died but declined in a news conference outside a Los Angeles federal courthouse to give an alternate version of events. He said that would be presented in court.
“The $75 million claim against the city of Los Angeles should send a resonating message that we cannot tolerate or stand for the continued conduct of abuse, discrimination, racial profiling that allowed this poor man to be shot dead,” Lerman said.
Not much to say: wanted to bring this to people's attention and suggest that along with the People of Ferguson, I am hoping there will be a huge wave of lawsuits stemming from America's cops being utterly out of control all across America.
While I want to scream nobody is doing anything about our Out-Of-Control constabulary, I see that Joe Arpaio, the Ultimate PIG, is being stripped of his military toys. That particular man belongs under a prison, but he's still a sheriff, he still has a gun and a badge, he is still doing shitty things to people and totally getting away with it. But I can take some solace in the fact he is getting his toys removed and he's having sour grapes about it: "them handguns probably didn't shoot no-how".
Hopefully more police departments will have their toys removed: or maybe they can sell them to build up a bank account to pay all the lawsuits I hope are coming their way.
Since asking them to stop killing people left and right isn't working.....
Sue them for as much as you can possibly get.