The woman claims she was needlessly slammed to the ground and maimed while being detained at her mother’s house in 2019 by two Antioch police officers.
A woman claims two Antioch police officers — including one named in a racist text messaging scandal embroiling the city’s police department — broke her arm while wrongfully detaining her nearly four years ago, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week.
Young said the encounter nearly four years ago — and the subsequent revelation of the racist text messages, including messages from Wenger — has left her distrustful of police and their motives. The officers said they were told that a group of people stole “arms full” of merchandise from the store — during which time Young assaulted a security guard there by either punching him in the face or hitting him with a phone, according to a police report by Wenger.
“Such actions were in conscious and reckless disregard of the risk of injury and under the circumstances, there was no objectively reasonable basis for the defendants’ actions,” suit, which was filed by civil rights attorney Stanley Goff. Young’s mother later filed a complaint with the Antioch Police Department’s internal affairs division, which is charged with investigating officers accused of misconduct. While the APD has released police reports, the criminal complaint filed against Young and its initial review of the force Wenger used, the department has not produced any documentation of what, if any, discipline was handed down to Wenger.
“If Pitt didn’t have all those body cams and that was us…we would have f—– him up more,” the officer said.The incident involving Young happened before Antioch police were required to wear the cameras. However, her attorney, Goff, specifically noted the existence of the text messages in suing the city of Antioch and the two officers.
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