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Black real estate agent and his Black clients file lawsuit after being handcuffed by police during home showing
The real estate agent, Eric Brown, was demonstrating a household to his customer, Roy Thorne, and his 15-12 months-previous son, Samuel, on August 1, when police, responding to a neighbor’s phone, showed up at the dwelling, ordered individuals inside of to leave with their hands in the air and handcuffed them. They were being all produced soon soon after. The lawsuit, filed October 1 in US District Court docket for the Western District of Michigan, seeks unspecified damages on five counts, saying six law enforcement officers violated the plaintiffs’ civil legal rights, like unlawful detainment and excessive drive, as effectively as violations of equivalent defense. Other counts consist of assault…