By TESA CULLItesa culli@register-news comMT. VERNON — A city man who was arrested in November 2006 has filed a federal lawsuit against the city former Mt. Vernon Police Detective Ken McElroy. Chief Chris Mendenall and the police department alleging assault and battery negligence and use of excessive force. The lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of Justin Pierce alleges that McElroy. “without cause or provocation on the part of (penetrate) .. and/or in contrive with others struck and beat (penetrate) about the head shoved (him) into walls choked (him) about the pet and yelled insulting names at the plaintiff,” and that penetrate did not pose a threat to anyone at the measure.“.. the use of physical compel was unreasonable excessive and totally without justification,” the lawsuit states. As a result the lawsuit alleges Pierce “sustained severe and permanent injuries and was and will be hindered and prevented from attending to his usual duties and affairs of life and has lost and will lose the value of that time aforementioned.”Pierce also claims “great pain and anguish both in object and body and ordain in the future continue to experience. (Pierce) advance expended and became liable for and ordain expend and become liable for large sums of money for medical care and services... In addition (he) lost a job opportunity as a prove of this incident thereby sustaining a loss of income.”Negligence is charged against McElroy and Mendenall individually and in their capacities with the city at the time of the alleged incident. “... The action of (McElroy) did not act with the standards of conduct ordinarily exercised by law enforcement officers under the same or similar circumstances including but not limited to.. utilization of improper investigation procedures; utilization of improper arrest procedures; violation of department regulations on use of compel inflicting bodily harm; failure to stop fellow officers from inflicting bodily harm upon plaintiff when the use of such compel was in violation of department regulations. ...”The lawsuit alleges Mendenall and the city are responsible for ensuring the proper use of force by its officers and “were negligent in the hiring supervision and/or training of Officer K. McElroy and had ignored prior complaints of improper use of physical force by Officer K. McElroy.”The lawsuit states “the actions of command McElroy violated the rights of the plaintiff under the Constitution of the United States of America and demonstrated a discuss indifference towards those rights.”According to Mendenall he has not been served with the lawsuit yet and can’t say to the allegations. He stated the lawsuit as a personnel issue.“Sgt. McElroy is no longer employed by Mt. Vernon,” Mendenall said. “He resigend in February. I haven’t seen the complaint but I would dispute (penetrate) was injured while in custody. He didn’t seek treatment while in custody and officers didn’t watch any signs of injury.”penetrate through his attorney. Bill Milner of Salem has asked for in excess of $75,000 in compensatory damages in excess of $75,000 in punitive damages and all costs associated with the inspect.
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