Lawsuit says officer broke car window, threw driver on glass
Associated Press 2 hrs ago
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A Black motorist says a white North Carolina police officer threw her onto broken glass after he broke her car window with his baton in 2018, leaving her with multiple cuts that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit.
Danielle Helena Downing, now 39, of Charlotte, says in the lawsuit filed on April 2 in federal court in Charlotte, that Mooresville police Officer Josh Barlow used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Mooresville is about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Charlotte.
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A Charlotte woman says in a lawsuit that a Mooresville police officer used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration.
A Black motorist says a white Mooresville police officer threw her onto broken glass after he broke her car window with his baton in 2018, leaving her with multiple cuts that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit.
Danielle Helena Downing, now 39, of Charlotte, says in the lawsuit filed on April 2 in federal court in Charlotte that Mooresville police officer Josh Barlow used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration, the Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Mooresville is about 30 miles north of Charlotte.
Lawsuit says North Carolina officer broke car window, threw driver on glass
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) A Black motorist says a white North Carolina police officer threw her onto broken glass after he broke her car window with his baton in 2018, leaving her with multiple cuts that required hospital treatment, according to a lawsuit.
Danielle Helena Downing, now 39, of Charlotte, says in the lawsuit filed on April 2 in federal court in Charlotte, that Mooresville police Officer Josh Barlow used his baton to smash her car window as she was attempting to hand him her vehicle registration, The Charlotte Observer reported Tuesday. Mooresville is about 30 miles (45 kilometers) north of Charlotte.