Ben Crump Files Lawsuit for Eric Cole's Family. Ohio Cop Ran Over Black Man with Police Car After Dispatch Failed to Inform Cops "He Was Lying in the Middle of the Street"

From [HERE] Renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump and his team announced Tuesday that they have filed a lawsuit against Springfield police Officer Amanda Rosales and two police dispatchers on behalf of the family of Eric Cole.

According to the lawsuit, Rosales fatally ran over 42-year-old Cole with her police SUV on June 13, 2021.

The lawsuit also names dispatchers Erin Reynolds and Mary Herge as defendants.

The lawsuit alleges that both dispatchers recklessly failed to properly relay Cole's location to officers responding to the scene, as well as to other dispatchers.

According to court documents, Reynolds and Herge each spoke to Cole after he was shot in the shoulder during a domestic dispute, left the scene, and called 911 for help.

While Herge was on the phone with Cole, he said multiple times, "I'm in the middle of the street."

The complaint quotes dialogue between the two dispatchers later in their shift that night in which Herge asked Reynolds, "Did you let them know he was in the middle of the street?" Reynolds then replied, "I didn't see it."

According to the complaint, Reynolds did not use the police radio to alert officers responding to the scene that Cole was lying in the street, instead only providing that information via the CAD (computer-aided dispatch) system, which provides dispatch information via text to officer computers.

Dash camera footage shows that as Rosales approached where Eric was lying down in the street, suffering trauma from his gunshot wound, his white shirt was illuminated by her vehicle's headlights, the lawsuit said.

Rosales struck Cole with her police cruiser. He died of blunt force trauma to the torso about three hours later, court documents stated.

The complaint alleges that Rosales contributed to Cole's wrongful death by failing to learn from the CAD that he was in the middle of the street.

Springfield police and Clark County dispatchers did not tell the responding EMS medics that Eric had been run over, and the medics did not find out until days later from news reports.

After learning from news reports days later that Cole had been run over, all five medics added notes to the initial EMS report detailing that none of them had been advised that Cole had been hit by a vehicle, documents stated.

In the lawsuit, Cole's family said the police failure to promptly notify EMS that Cole had been run over prevented him from receiving life-saving medical care.

"Eric Cole leaves behind three children who will never see their father again because of the action and inaction of Springfield Police officers and Clark County dispatchers. If these defendants had performed their jobs as if lives were at stake, Eric might be here today," Crump said. "Instead, these individuals responded to Eric with reckless disregard for his life, which resulted in an SUV running him over — information that was not communicated to EMS. Eric gasped for air and said the all-too-familiar and tragic words, 'I can't breathe,' as life left his body."

The Springfield Police Department did not disclose what happened to Eric's family for a day and a half.

The lawsuit also states the police department's incident reports, showed no officers indicated that one of their own had run over Cole.

The family said the Springfield Police Department told the truth about Cole's cause of death only after a coroner revealed that it was blunt force trauma from the police cruiser, not the survivable gunshot wound to the shoulder.