Shopkeeper sues Baton Rouge police in aftermath of black man's death

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:52am EDT

Shopkeeper sues Baton Rouge police in aftermath of black man's death

BATON ROUGE, LA. | BY BRYN STOLE

The owner of a Louisiana convenience store in front of which a black man was killed by police sued the city of Baton Rouge and members of its police force on Monday claiming he was illegally detained and that police took his surveillance video after the shooting.

Triple S Food Mart owner Abdullah Muflahi said in the lawsuit that Baton Rouge officers locked him in the back of a police vehicle for about four hours after he witnessed the July 5 shooting of Alton Sterling, 37.

He sued two officers involved in the shooting, two officers investigating it, the chief of police and the city. He is seeking damages for false imprisonment and the illegal taking of his property.

Sterling, who often sold compact discs outside the store with Muflahi's permission, was shot and killed in the parking lot during an altercation with two white officers who had responded to a 911 call about a man threatening someone with a gun.

Muflahi recorded the shooting on his cell phone. According to the lawsuit, immediately afterward police seized the store's security system without a warrant and took Muflahi into custody.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-police-louisiana-idUSKCN0ZS21C

[2naSalit]

1. Hope he has hired

body guards and makes the police pay for them, hope he wins his case(s).

[mopinko]

2. good. i think the only way to end this is to sue their asses.

as was noted here recently, a few lawsuits and some of these departments go belly up.
we have to make them pay.