Octavio Rodriguez Cira and Fabiola Merlos Martinez filed the 11-count suit on May 11 claiming their son, Fernando Rodriguez, was robbed of his 14th amendment rights when police used excessive force, failed to intervene and failed to render medical aid to him. Additionally, they claim the county and city failed to provide proper training to police officers as well as failed to provide for the safety of arrestees and detainees, âincluding the handcuffing and restraint process.â
Rodriguez, 24, was found by Hampton police on Sept. 20, 2019, walking nude on Oak Street near the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Hampton police responded and Henry County officers arrived on the scene as back up.
The family of a man who died days after being tased by officers is filing a federal lawsuit against the Henry County Police Department and the City of Hampton Police
ATLANTA
Police officers who encountered a naked man walking down a Georgia street repeatedly fired their stun guns at him and pinned him to the ground by kneeling and standing on him, ultimately and wrongfully causing his death, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the man’s parents.
Fernando Octavio Rodriguez, 24, was walking home after attending the Imagine Festival, an electronic music event held at the Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, when officers responding to a 911 report of an unclothed man approached him shortly after 10 p.m. on Sept. 20, 2019.
Over the next 10 minutes officers stunned him at least 15 times and “pinned Fernando to the ground by kneeling and standing on Fernando’s back, neck, head, arms, and legs, thereby depriving Fernando of oxygen,” the lawsuit says.