- Police Brutality Watch

Says Lennox Police Shot Black Man & then Covered it up

An attorney for a man shot by a Lennox sheriff's deputy charged Friday that officers planted a gun at the scene to cover up a bad shooting and "wanton police brutality." Stephen Yagman said he plans to file civil rights complaints Monday with the FBI and U.S. Justice Department, demanding that officials investigate the Nov. 29 shooting of Shon Curry, 28, in Lennox. Curry is black. Yagman said "it was a bunch of hostile, aggressive cops out looking for trouble. When they couldn't find the trouble, they made the trouble." The Sheriff's Department's homicide bureau is investigating the shooting. Lt. Jack Jordan, who headed the team at the scene, was not available to comment Friday. Lennox sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Waidner called the confrontation a "completely clean shooting" and said Yagman's statement that deputies planted a gun was nonsense. Two guns were recovered at the scene, Gage said. Yagman said he knew only of one gun, and that his client did not have one. "Mr. Curry was not in possession of a gun and therefore any police officer who says he was in possession of a gun was lying," Yagman said. Yagman said Curry's account was that he tripped as he approached the deputies. He became frightened when a deputy yelled at him, and tried to run, but was shot in the neck, back and top of his leg. Curry remains hospitalized. "I do not know the race of the deputy, except to say that he is blue," Yagman said. "All police are members of the blue race and it's the race that doesn't like African-Americans." [more] and more]