Latino Brother & Sister Attacked by Corpus Chrsiti Cops: Attorney plans to show pattern of abuse

 
There's new information on a lawsuit filed by a Corpus Christi woman and her brother, who claim that they were brutally beaten by police officers outside a nightclub. When the case goes to trial, their attorney plans to show a pattern of abuse by police. On the day when attorneys file another motion in the alleged police brutality case of Tiffany and Blake Avalos, attorney Christopher Gale hopes to prove these injuries were caused by aggressive police officers, who were trying to arrest them outside a downtown night club on charges that were later dropped. Federal court documents indicate one of their strategies will be to call up to 23 witnesses to the stand, who will testify they too have been badly beaten by police. Attorneys for the Avalos' will also present a list of over 500 names of citizens who've filed official complaints of abuse by CCPD. While complaint after complaint, not to mention images of broken teeth, lacerations to the mouth and a broken jaw may look bad, city leaders believe this lawsuit is baseless and are confident the city attorneys will successfully fight on behalf of the three police officers named in the suit.  "We don't believe that the city is involved in any wrongdoing with the case, and we want to fight it," said Council member Melody Cooper. The federal lawsuit is set to go to trial on March 20th. [more]