Family Of Murdered 19-Year-Old Black Teen Sues Police Officers, Case Compared To George Floyd
Dec 18 2020, 10:33AM EST
The family of Anton Black has filed a federal lawsuit against the police officers responsible for the death of the black teenager two years ago. Black died in September 2018 at the age of 19.
Two former officers of the Greensboro, Maryland police as well as the town’s former police chief were the people penned in the complaint. They are said to be the chief protagonists behind the death of Black and are being accused of covering up the incident, the Associated Press reported.
When the State finally released its autopsy findings, officials outrageously contended that Anton’s bipolar disorder was a contributing cause of death, as opposed to the law enforcement officers’ brutal actions in chasing, tasing, and pinning Anton down under hundreds of pounds of weight for six minutes until he lost consciousness and stopped breathing, the lawsuit states.
The complaint alleges law enforcement improperly influenced the medical examiner.
The lawsuit points to a supplemental Maryland State Police report which included discussion with the medical examiner that Black s neck looked good as proof they wished to rule out evidence of physical violence and asphyxiation by police.
Maryland family sues after Black man died in police custody
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 17, 2020 at 4:12 pm EDT
BALTIMORE The family of a 19-year-old Black man who died in police custody two years ago in a rural town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against two police chiefs, two officers, the state’s Office of the Medical Examiner and others.
The lawsuit by the family of Anton Black was filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. The family accuses the two officers and a police chief of causing Black’s death by using excessive force and the Medical Examiner’s Office of “improperly concealing police wrongdoing” and misrepresenting the man’s “death as attributable to natural causes.”
Print Tyler Waldman, WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5
The family of an Eastern Shore man killed by police in 2018 on Thursday sued the town of Greensboro, two police chiefs, two officers and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in connection with his death.
The federal lawsuit claims police violated the rights of 19-year-old Anton Black and carried out a cover-up related to the fatal confrontation on Sept. 15, 2018.
“I am devastated, father Antone Black said in a statement. I’m shook up every time I pass by where Anton lived. My son was the heart of our family. Anton had his whole life ahead of him. He was an athlete, a model, he was in college, and he dreamed of being an actor. They took all that away from him, from us, and it hurts me every day.”