Man Suing Cops After they Shot Him in the Head With Rubber Bullets for No Reason, Leaving Him Blind
TheFreeThoughtProject.com
November 19, 2016
San Jose, CA — (RT) A California man is suing the city of San Jose and its police for blinding him with rubber bullets as he threatened suicide, but posed no danger to either the public or law enforcement. He was also wounded in the leg and chest.
Benjamin Cooper’s case has passed unnoticed until recently. Late October he filed a lawsuit, hoping to hold local police responsible for trauma he sustained almost a year ago.
On December 15, 2015, San Jose police were called to a local Shop-N-Go store after a 911 call reported a man threatening to commit suicide. The call came from the shop clerk as Cooper was pressing a knife to his own throat.
“There was no indication that anyone other than PLAINTIFF was in danger,” Cooper’s lawyers wrote in the complaint filed on October 28.
Police arrived at the scene when both the clerk and Cooper were inside Shop-N-Go. As officers cleared out the store, Cooper also went outside the store and “paced back and forth” for several minutes, still holding a knife, according to the lawsuit.
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