The city of Vallejo, California, where residents are calling for an outside review after a spate of fatal police shootings and excessive force complaints in recent years, is facing three new lawsuits claiming officers have violated people's civil rights.
in recent years, is facing three new lawsuits claiming officers have violated people's civil rights — including one man who said he was physically attacked while filming a police stop from his front porch.
The complaints were filed this week in federal court in Northern California by the law offices of John Burris, whose firm is representing other families suing Vallejo police and the Bay Area city. They include the family of a black rapper named Willie McCoy, who wasin February by six Vallejo officers, prompting an ongoing investigation by the Solano County District Attorney's Office.
In April, Deyana Jenkins, a 20-year-old niece of McCoy's, said she was racially profiled, dragged from her car, Tased and unlawfully arrested after Vallejo police pulled over the car she was driving. Part of the incident was, although the moment Jenkins said she was tased is not visible. Jenkins was booked into the Solano County Jail on suspicion of resisting arrest and delaying an officer in the performance of his duties.
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