A man claims a Lancaster city police officer â whoâs been sued twice in the past several years over excessive force claims â shot him in the back with a Taser and then falsified a report to justify using the weapon, according to a lawsuit the man filed.
The suit claims the officerâs body camera captured what really happened.
Ivan Ruiz-Rivera, 50, filed the federal civil rights suit Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Heâs seeking more than $350,000, plus punitive damages and other costs.
The suit names Officer Jacob Bingham, another officer by last name only, along with numerous officers identified as John Does, and the city. The city settled the other two suits naming Bingham, and another officer, without admitting wrongdoing.