Black Newspaper Carrier Falsely Accused of Making Death Threat by White Sheriff Files $5M Legal Clai
Black Newspaper Carrier Falsely Accused of Making Death Threat by White Sheriff Files $5M Legal Claim Against County
MARISA SARNOFFJun 16th, 2021, 5:42 pm
Sedrick Altheimer, a Black newspaper carrier who was falsely accused of threatening a local sheriff’s life, filed a $5 million legal claim on Wednesday against Pierce County, Washington, alleging emotional distress and race-based discrimination.
According to the filing, which is a precursor to a potential lawsuit, Altheimer has suffered “severe emotional distress” as a result of the confrontation, and that his constitutional rights were violated. According to his claim, Altheimer has witnesses “who will attest to the emotional distress caused by the racial profiling, false arrest, and unnecessary use of excessive force of this man whose only crime was ‘being a black [sic] man in a white [sic] neighborhood.”
Altheimer was delivering newspapers on his regular route in Tacoma when at around 2:00 a.m., he noticed he was being followed by an “unmarked, personal SUV,” the claim says. Altheimer said he stopped to ask why the driver, later identified as Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, was following him.
According to a Seattle Times report, Troyer said he started following Altheimer because “he saw a driver he believed was behaving suspiciously in his neighborhood in Tacoma’s West End.”
More:
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Best wishes to Sedrick Altheimer.
‘being a black [sic] man in a white [sic] neighborhood.”
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