Thus far five protesters are involved in the lawsuit brought against the Ferguson police department with the help of Black Lawyers for Justice, a Washington D.C. company.
The president of the lawyers group stated:
Malik Z. Shabazz, said in a press conference that "police were completely out of control" and "used excessive force on a regular basis," calling it "virtually a police riot." Shabazz said that although the suit was filed on behalf of "the Ferguson Five," he expects others arrested during the protests to join the suit.
One of the named plaintiffs, Dwayne A. Matthews Jr., 23, told reporters in a news conference outside U.S. District Court that he was walking to his mother's house on Aug. 13 when he was confronted by police, shot with rubber-coated bullets multiple times, nearly drowned in a drainage ditch and pepper-sprayed. Police, he said, used racial epithets and called him "mop-head" during the arrest.
Question: will police departments across our nation learn anything from Ferguson?
Doubtful.
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