Jury to get police brutality case today against Black Teenagers.
Thursday, August 12, 2004 at 04:14PM
TheSpook
The federal civil rights lawsuit against five white policemen and the city of St. Joseph by three black plaintiffs got smaller this week when a federal judge dismissed a claim against one policeman and dismissed other claims. The case was expected to go to the jury today. No longer a part of the suit is policeman Chris Mendus. Mendus and fellow officers Mark Boelcke, Lenny Rothrock, Richard Pulliam and Dale Easton were named in the suit, which is being heard in federal District Court for the Western District of Michigan. It was filed on behalf of three former St. Joseph teenagers, Devin Mitchell, Cody Mitchell and Preston Culpepper. They allege that the five policemen violated their 14th Amendment rights of equal protection under the law by practicing selective prosecution, false arrest and imprisonment. [more ]
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