Carjacking Suspect Sues Police Over Beating Caught On Video
DETROIT (WWJ/AP) - A man charged with carjacking is seeking more than $1 million in a lawsuit against police officers who are seen on video kicking and beating him.
Andrew Jackson Jr. says he suffered injuries as well as emotional distress during the arrest in Detroit on Jan. 12. His lawsuit was moved to federal court Monday from Wayne County court.
Jackson was arrested by officers assigned to a regional auto-theft unit on Jan. 12 near Plainview and Pickford streets, south of 7 Mile Road, in Detroit. Video recorded by a local resident inside her home shows Jackson being kicked and beaten by cops from Grosse Pointe Park and Highland Park while they taunt him, shouting expletives.
[Watch the video HERE >>Note: Extremely Strong Language]
"What'd you say? Jesus? You're calling Jesus?" an officer, at one point, asks the man. "You f—er! Don't you dare; don't you f—ing dare."
"This man is handcuffed and the police is beating him while his hands is cuffed behind him… They were kicking him and pistol-whipping him," the woman said, narrating as she records the action talking place out on the sidewalk.
"They just found a pistol on this guy…. They just took the clip out, and I guess he shot at them or something, I don't know," she said.
While Grosse Pointe Park Police Chief David Hiller said the officers' actions were "proper," the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office is considering whether to file charges against the officers.
Meanwhile, Jackson — an ex-convict who was released from prison in 2013 — returns to court on March 3 to see if he will face trial on the carjacking charge and many other crimes. He's accused of robbing a 55-year-old woman who was cleaning snow off of her car in the 18200 block of Evergreen, and threatening to shoot her grandchildren.
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