Protester Sues Metropolis, Three Pittsburgh Police Officers Claiming He Was Injured In Final 12 months’s Protests – CBS Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Greater than a 12 months after the George Floyd protests in downtown Pittsburgh, a McKees Rocks man has filed a lawsuit towards three unnamed Pittsburgh Law enforcement officials and the Metropolis of Pittsburgh.

The go well with alleges John Connors was falsely arrested and subjected to extreme pressure.

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His legal professional, Timothy O’Brien says Connors was video recording the police response through the protests on Could 30, 2020, and was carrying a “blue lives homicide” t-shirt when he was allegedly injured by officers.

In response to the grievance, officers arrested him and filed false felony fees towards him – together with failure to disperse and disorderly conduct.

Connors was incarcerated for 3 days after which his fees had been dismissed.

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“It’s a case that actually typifies that when police are required to make use of restraint, they as a substitute responded with retaliation,” O’Brien mentioned. “That shouldn’t occur and this lawsuit is an effort to verify it doesn’t occur once more. The takeaway is that this has to cease, it’s the twenty first century, these sorts of police techniques ought to have been [ended] a very long time in the past and we shouldn’t should convey these lawsuits however now we have and maybe perhaps this one will cease it from taking place once more.”

O’Brien mentioned that Connors suffered bruising accidents and has since recovered.

The go well with additionally says that Connors “suffered private harm, harm to his repute, emotional misery, embarrassment, and humiliation.”

“Mr. Connors’s rights beneath the primary modification to have interaction in protected exercise together with recording the police performing their duties and his fourth modification rights to be free from false arrests, the usage of extreme pressure and malicious prosecution,” O’Brien added. “Additionally, the lawsuit additionally contends what occurred right here was the direct results of town of Pittsburgh not correctly coaching its officers and having insurance policies and practices that actually enable them to commit these sorts of abuses with impunity.”

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The town’s authorized division has not responded to request for remark.