Conspiracy claim stays in lawsuit over rapper s killing by police Erik Ortiz
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a lawsuit filed on behalf of Willie McCoy, a young rapper fatally shot by police in Vallejo, California, in 2019 can proceed on its claim that officers conspired to harm him, an allegation that rarely sticks in cases involving use of force.
U.S. District Court Judge John Mendez in Sacramento denied Vallejo s attempt to have the conspiracy claim dismissed in the McCoy family s lawsuit, writing that the Court finds that an agreement or meeting of the minds could be inferred to support the agreement element of a conspiracy.
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McMahon was placed on administrative leave and required to surrender his badge. The internal affairs sergeant had discovered that his badge was not sitting flush on the table and brought it to my attention and Chief Bidou s attention and what we discovered was the two points on the badge had been bent and the sergeant went back and talked to officer McMahon and was told that the bends were as a result of another officer bending them and it was done because he had been in two officer-involved shootings, said Whitney. Officers were bending their badges to commemorate when they were in an officer-involved shooting and each bend signified a shooting that they had been in, Whitney continued.