Police shoot a gun at his family after 4 years have taken a doll to a store | national

A Phoenix couple filed a $ 10 million lawsuit against the city after the video showed police officers firing a gun in their hand after their four-year-old daughter left the store with a doll.

Dravon Ames and his partner Iesha Harper, left a dollar store on May 29 with their two daughters ages 1 and 4 and headed to their babysitter in a nearby apartment complex. Upon arrival, the Phoenix police confronted them.

On Tuesday (11 June), the police broadcast a video filmed by a passerby showing an officer appearing to have pushed Ames handcuffed against the edge of a car and kicked his legs.

Other officers could be seen handcuffing Harper after an unidentified woman came with her two children.

"When I tell you to do something, you can do it!" an officer can be heard screaming at the man. Ames then seemed to obey, while he had been removed from the ground and thrown against a patrol car. The officer then repeated, "When I tell you to do something, you will do it!"

At a press conference this week, Harper said he tried to explain to the police that she was in the back with her children and that she could not immediately get out of her car.

"We scream," The door does not open on this side. It does not open. "Obviously, I do not have a gun with two children in my hand," she said.

According to the complaint filed by family lawyer Thomas Horne, one of the officers reportedly told Harper: "I could have shot you in front of your children."

The family also announced that a police officer had threatened to "put a f ***** g cap" in the "f ***** g's head" of the 22-year-old father, the Phoenix New Times reports.

The Phoenix police say that she is looking into the case. "The Phoenix Police Service takes seriously all the allegations of misconduct and that is why the Bureau of Professional Standards is currently investigating this incident," reads a police statement.

The complaint filed by Ames and Harper alleges that the police committed battery, illegal imprisonment (after both were arrested and detained), false arrests and other rights violations. civilians. The family claims $ 10 million in damages, or $ 2.5 million per person in the car at the beginning of the incident.

Phoenix police did not reveal the name of the agent.