Rodney Hinton Jr. continues to be very a lot within the heart of societal conversations about self-defense, vigilantism, and rising frustration with police violence towards Black folks. BOSSIP has been overlaying the case of the 38-year-old who stands accused of killing a police officer together with his automobile after his 18-year-old son Ryan Hinton was shot useless by officers the day earlier than.
In line with new reporting by NBC Information, Hinton Jr. has filed a $25 million lawsuit towards Cincinnati police and the Hamilton County Justice Middle of violation of due course of, false imprisonment, and extreme drive throughout his arrest. The grievance states that Hinton “appeared visibly crushed” throughout his courtroom look the place officers gathered to “[create] an environment of worry, surveillance, and intimidation.”
In an odd twist, Hinton’s authorized counsel, Lawyer Clyde Bennett, doesn’t assist the lawsuit and mentioned that it was filed by one other girl on Hinton’s behalf. The lawsuit is requesting that Hinton be paid $5 million in compensatory damages and one other $20 million in punitive damages.
Cincinnati Enquirer says that not solely did Bennett not know concerning the swimsuit, Hinton didn’t know both.
“We have been completely unaware of it till it was reported by the media,” lawyer Clyde Bennett II informed The Enquirer on Could 13. He added that the grievance seems to be “frivolous” as a result of it wasn’t filed by an lawyer.
The submitting expenses that the inordinate quantity of officers attending Hinton’s arraignment is proof of their need to scare the grieving father.
No cheap regulation enforcement company would topic a pretrial defendant to this stage of bodily restraint, humiliation, and psychological warfare absent a coordinated plan to discriminate, punish, and intimidate,” the lawsuit states.
We’ll proceed to comply with each instances as they transfer ahead.
