A Texas man filed a lawsuit against two police officers who knocked him to the ground and pepper sprayed him as he was filming his son’s arrest after a traffic obstruction.
39-yr-old Marco Puente is suing Blake Shimanek and Ankit Tomer in federal court. He claims Keller’s agents used excessive force when they arrested him.
The lawsuit also alleges that Dillon Puente was racially profiled during the traffic obstruction and that Shimanek arrested him and put him in jail for making a “a wide right turn” solely to search his car for narcotics, which he didn’t find.
The body camera video of Puente’s arrest has gone viral on social media, and an online petition to fire Shimanek and file criminal charges has garnered more than 12,000 signatures.
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