Around midnight on New Year's Day 2022, an Ohio man was shot and killed by a police officer for firing "celebratory" shots into the air. Now, his widow has filed a federal lawsuit against the officer and local police department, claiming that police violated her husband's constitutional rights by using unnecessary, excessive force.
"For decades, United States Supreme Court has interpreted the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution to prohibit a police officer's use of excessive force during the arrest of a citizen," the lawsuit states, adding that police deprived "Plaintiff of his well-established right to be free from excessive force, per the authority cited herein."
