Several people filed a $40 million federal lawsuit against Ferguson police, St. Louis County Police and a slew of other defendants on Thursday, alleging that their civil rights were violated during police assaults and arrests that took place during the unrest that shook the St. Louis, Missouri, suburb after a white officer killed an unarmed black teenager
According to news reports, the lawsuit, submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, claims that law enforcement responding to public dissent over the Aug. 9 killing of Michael Brown, 18, treated protesters as if they were war combatants. Read more...
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