By Bruce C.T. Wright, NewsOne
A police officer intentionally drove over a Black driver who fled on foot from a traffic stop that involved multiple police departments in Kansas, according to a new lawsuit. Lionel Womack, a former police officer, filed the lawsuit Thursday and said that dashcam video from the encounter this past summer corroborates his allegations, the Associated Press reported.
Womack, 35, whose lawsuit alleges he “sustained serious injuries to his back, pelvis and thigh as well as to his right knee, ankle and foot,” says there was no justification for him to be pulled over.
Dashcam captures a Kansas sheriff’s deputy driving over a Black man after being pulled over for driving without headlights. The victim, who survived, is a former police detective #LionelWomack Womack says he fled after officers surrounded him despite complying to orders.@CBS46pic.twitter.com/K1QJRQHtgj
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