Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

AURORA, Colo. — A federal civil rights lawsuit was filed Thursday against the City of Aurora and a former Aurora Police Department officer accused of assaulting a woman with a disability while she was walking her dog earlier this year.

Officer Douglas Harroun is also facing assault charges in connection with the incident, which happened Jan. 11.

“There has been no end to the repercussions I have suffered from this incident,” Wyoma Martinez, the victim, wrote in a statement. “This man assaulted me for simply walking my dog too slow.”

A car crash caused Martinez to develop a condition that caused pain on her entire left side and made it difficult to walk. She was walking her dog in the street to avoid slick ice and snow on the sidewalk, the lawsuit says. Harroun wanted her to move faster.

When she didn’t, the lawsuit said, he nearly hit her with his car, yelled at her and assaulted her.…..


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