Black Man Sues Michigan Police Department After He Was Detained While Walking Because an Officer Thought He Was Going to Steal: ‘You Look Like You Have a Weapon’
A Black man has filed a $10 million civil rights lawsuit against a suburban Detroit police department and an officer on the force after he was stopped and detained, then injured, while walking along a road earlier this month. Brian Chaney, a 48-year-old Farmington Hills, Michigan, man, filed the suit on Monday against the Keego…