White San Diego Cops Tased a Shirtless Black Man who Had Both of His Hands Up, Then Allowed 2 Police Dogs to Attack Him as He Laid in a Fetal Position – Lawsuit Filed Against Liberal Authorities

From [HERE] The San Diego Police Department is facing an excessive force lawsuit after an incident last month where a Black man was repeatedly shot with non-lethal beanbag rounds and bit by a white police officer and K-9 while unarmed.

The incident occurred at a home in Valencia Park on Oct. 24. Police had responded to the home just before midnight after receiving a report of a man threatening a woman with a gun. The suspect had been described as wearing loose-fitting shorts, according to SDPD.

Upon arrival, SDPD said officers called for the suspect, later identified as 31-year-old Marcus Evans, to come out of the home and he did a short time later. Police said he was “repeatedly ordered” to surrender but did not, prompting the use of the beanbag rounds and K-9.

Video captured of the scene, however, raised questions about whether the use of this force was necessary. Lawyers for Evans argue it was not.

“I don’t know why they used this force and I think that is a burning question for the community to know. Why was this type of force used and applied on this person at this time,” Evans’ lawyer, Dante Pride, told FOX 5/KUSI.

In the video, Evans can be seen walking out of the house without shoes or a shirt, holding his hands in the air. He told officers “I have no gun,” then sat down on a ledge near the home with his hands still up. SDPD later confirmed he did not have a firearm.

Shortly after he sat on the ledge, the first of three beanbag rounds was fired, hitting him in the abdomen and causing him to fall on to several steps below in visible pain.

An officer can then be heard shouting “We said hands” as Evans is lying in a fetal position, to which he responds by trying to show his hands. He also can be heard asking officers “Why you shoot me?”

A few minutes later, Evans can be seen sitting up on a step outside the house, still with his arms up. That is when the second round is fired and the K-9 is released on him, the video shows. The dog appears to bite his arm as he can be heard saying, “Stop please.”

Following more back and forth with officers from the step, the third round is fired and the police K-9 is released a second time, again biting his arm. Evans can be heard in the video crying out in pain as the dog thrashes with his arm and pulls him down the steps onto the ground.

As several officers surround him to place him in handcuffs, Evans can be heard pleading, “I can’t feel my hand, please stop.”

The man’s attorneys, whose account differs regarding the number of police dogs deployed, say that when the first beanbag round was fired, their client had his hands raised while telling officers he was unarmed and not resisting.

The first shot struck him in the abdomen, causing him “immediate injury” and sending him to the ground, where he lay in the fetal position, they said. With his hands still raised, a second beanbag round was fired and a dog was sent in, making “contact with Mr. Evans.”

The attorneys say a second dog caused Evans “severe bite injuries” before he was shot with a final beanbag round, though he was “not displaying any threatening behavior.” In the claim they wrote that “his left arm was mauled by the K9 unit.”[MORE]

SDPD said Evans was later transported to a hospital for treatment of the injuries sustained to his arm, stomach, chest, groin and shin. The charges he was initially taken into custody for — assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest — were later dropped.

Pride argues the incident caused needless, yet severe harm to Evans, forcing him to leave a job in construction he only recently obtained.

His family also spoke out during a press conference Wednesday, expressing pain and desire for answers as to why this happened.

“I’m hurt, I’m devastated. It’s deep, the wound is very deep,” Evans’ mother said. “I hope no other child, no other Black male — anybody, I don’t care what their color is … I hope no one ever has to go through this type of injustice again.”