The tort claim states the black couple was 'pulled over, held at gunpoint, arrested and detained based on the color of their skin' on April 21, while their 4-month-old daughter was left unattended in the backseat.
FISHERS — An Indianapolis family has filed a tort claim indicating their plans to sue the Fishers Police Department for racial profiling.
Their infant daughter was also detained and left alone in the backseat unattended for an extended period of time, the claim states.Fishers Police Department says this incident began as an investigation into a report of a physical altercation in a probable cause affidavit. Police said they told the man to stay in the parking lot as they went after the other"involved person" and conducted a traffic stop.
Police said they then learned from the driver of the Cadillac that he had been involved in a confrontation with the other individual after a road rage incident twenty minutes prior.Police later identified the man as Dustin J. Martin and arrested him for resisting law enforcement and false informing.
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