The family of Jawan Dallas filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Mobile and two police officers in the city, identified as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2, five months after their passing.
Harry Daniels, a civil rights lawyer, stated that “Juwan Dallas had a life, he had destiny, and he had plans.” “We’re suing for $36 million on his behalf, and we’re going to let those plans and that destiny to continue through his mother and his family.”
Following an argument with two MPD officers back in July, Dallas passed away. According to investigators, following a scuffle with a cop, he was twice given tased. The medical examiner concluded that the tasing was not the cause of Dallas’ death. According to the investigation, he used drugs and had underlying health conditions that were made worse by the strain of the arrest.
Daniels stated, “He was beaten and tased repeatedly, which ultimately resulted in his death.”
A grand jury in Mobile County determined last month that the policemen were not legally responsible for Dallas’s death. According to civil rights lawyer Harry Daniels, there are claims of excessive force violations and illegal use of force in the lawsuit.
Attorneys also filed an unconstitutional custom policy claim since the lawsuit also alleges that the cops violated Dallas’s Fourth Amendment rights by requesting his ID while he wasn’t accused of committing a crime.
Daniels stated, “The city of Mobile’s police officers cannot demand identification without suspicion or justification.”
“In the lawsuit, we are claiming that there is a pattern and practice within the Mobile Police Department that is indicative of the violent culture prevalent in the United States,” Lee Merritt stated.
The goal of this action, according to Dallas and his family’s attorneys as well as his father Phil Williams, is to bring justice to their clients.
“Thank you, Lord, for giving me the will and the goal to be here for my son. He was definitely worth it. To set this right, it is why we are here. We’re not going anywhere,” Phil Williams declared.
As part of their case, the family is asking for a trial. Robert Lasky, the Executive Director of Public Safety, provided us with the following statement:
“Normally, the City of Mobile stays silent about ongoing legal matters. But we are in the unique situation of having to refute a false narrative that lawyer Harry Daniels openly propagated during a press conference earlier today. Mr. Daniels claimed in his remarks that our police chief had misled the public about what had happened before Jawan Dallas and two Mobile police officers clashed on July 2, 2023, casting doubt on his integrity. We believe that the public interest is served when the 911 call and the following dispatch of two of our police officers to a claimed burglary in progress on July 2, 2023, are made public due to Mr. Daniels’s incitement and falsity. The transcripts are self-explanatory. Chief Paul Prine informed the public and media during his press conference on July 7, 2023, using the identical information that the operator gave to the 911 caller and the responding police. — The 911 caller gave the Mobile County 911 Center’s dispatcher a description of “a black male” wearing “red” or “reddish shirt” or “red pants.” The caller then reports that the man had “walked up the road up there, to it looked like trailer 27” to a Mobile Police Department dispatcher. Responding cops were informed by dispatchers that the individual was a “black male, wearing a hat, red shirt, possibly red pants,” and that he had been “last seen near trailer 27.”
