Exclusive: A woman who says she was shot by the Mississippi Capitol Police while lying in bed is suing the agency, accusing commanders and officers of acting recklessly and using excessive and unreasonable force.
alleging that the state’s plan to expand the police force’s power in Jackson — and create a new court to handle its cases — imposed a parallel, state-run justice system that does not answer to voters. Three civil rights organizations have also sued to block the creation of the new court.
The Capitol Police and the agency investigating the shooting, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation have said little to explain what happened and have declined to release the officer’s name or body camera footage, citing their investigation into the shooting.showed the officer fired on a man who was fleeing after jumping out of the suspected stolen car.
“Why not make them pay for what they did to me? I could have lost my life, and my daughter could have lost hers,” Smith said. Smith’s lawsuit, filed by attorneys Dennis Sweet III, Dennis Sweet IV and Carroll Rhodes, accuses Capitol Police officers of violating Smith’s civil rights by “discharging their firearms into a crowded and occupied dwelling with no regard for human life.” The shooting was the result of poor officer training and “demonstrated a deliberate indifference” to the rights of Smith and other Jackson residents, the lawsuit says.
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