A man punched multiple times by Ogden police officers after police say he refused to show his hands has filed a federal lawsuit against the department and the city.
SALT LAKE CITY — The mother of a man beaten by Ogden police for allegedly not showing his hands to officers is disputing the police department's version of what happened and claims the department is attempting to justify its actions after the fact.
Ogden Police Chief Eric Young said the officers were "in fear for their lives" because Sims would not take his hand out of his waistband. Once Sims was tackled by police and on the ground, Young said he rolled onto his stomach and kept his hands underneath him, prompting officers to strike Sims "with fists in the head, shoulder and back area numerous times trying to gain compliance," in addition to deploying a Taser on him twice.
Marsha Quintana wipes away tears as a body camera video showing her son being tackled and punched by Ogden police officers is played. Quintana and her son, Shawn Sims, along with their attorney Robert Sykes held a press conference on Monday to announce the filing of a federal civil lawsuit against the police department and the city of Ogden.
"The officers cannot create the need to use force. They cannot escalate the situation and create the need to use force. And that happened here," Sykes said. "Just because it's in policy doesn't make it constitutional. It can still be excessive. And the number of strikes and viciousness with which they occurred is, I think, astonishing here. I've seldom seen that.
"He said, 'They got me bad. They held me down and they beat me, they tased me.' He said, 'I didn't fight them because I didn't want to die.' He said, 'I was afraid they were going to kill me, Mom. And I didn't fight them because I didn't want to die,'" his mother recounted.
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