BRATTLEBORO -- In a complaint filed today in U.S. District Court, an attorney for two nonviolent protesters stunned with Tasers in July 2007 has filed six counts against the five Brattleboro police officers involved in the incident. Those counts range from false imprisonment to assault and battery to the use of excessive force.
The suit was filed in the Vermont district court because attorney David Sleigh, of Sleigh and Williams in St. Johnsbury, has contended the five police officers deprived Jonathan Crowell and Samantha Kilmurray of their civil rights when they stunned the pair for refusing to leave private property on July 24, 2007.
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