Derrick Cooper says Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies had the wrong address when they ordered him out of his Compton, Calif., home around 4 a.m.
It happened so swiftly that Cooper, who runs a youth sports academy in Compton, was marched out of his home half-naked, he alleged. He said officers did not allow him to put on pants as they ordered him outside.
Jaaye Person-Lynn, Cooper’s attorney, said that Cooper had no warrants for his arrest and that the sheriff’s department said officers were responding to an alert from a home security system. Cooper did not report a burglary, and no one broke into his home that night, Person-Lynn said. “I am a man of prestige in this community,” Cooper said at his news conference Friday. “I have children [that] I helped get into college.”
Cooper said he was anxious to comply with the officers’ orders and feared for his life. He added that he is still struggling to sleep after the incident.Person-Lynn said the decision to detain Cooper while he was undressed was “egregious” and criticized the officers’ decision to enter Cooper’s home at all.
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