Two women are suing the Los Angeles Police Dept., saying officers held them at gunpoint after thinking the U-Haul they were driving was stolen.
Two women are suing the Los Angeles Police Department, saying officers held them at gunpoint after thinking the U-Haul they were driving was stolen.
After parking in front of the new apartment, at least 10 officers with the Los Angeles Police Department swarmed the vehicle. Some had handguns drawn and others were armed with long guns, the suit stated, as an LAPD helicopter flew overhead.. She said police cars were blocking both ends of her new street and an officer parked behind her truck used his door as a"sort of shield." She said the officer was armed with a"huge rifle.
"I don’t want to get out. Guns are primed to attack me," she wrote."I still have no idea why. He commands me to put my hands on my head and face my back to them. They don’t even have the decency to let me look at them?" The lawsuit said that several officers approached the women with their guns drawn. Police"jammed" their knees into the women's backs as they were handcuffed, it said.
"They soften, even joke with me. They were just armed to shoot, and now I’m supposed to joke with them?" Balsaver wrote."This feels cruel and unjustified. ... They tease that I should demand free U-Haul services for a year."
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