KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Dion Martin remembers walking home one night in the mid-1980s when Roger Golubski, a Kansas City, Kansas, police officer, pulled up, handcuffed him and placed him in his squad car.
Martin, who believes he was 14 or 15, said Golubski told him they were going for a ride. Golubski made him lay down in the back seat, so he could only see the tops of buildings as Golubski drove from the center of KCK to near the James Street Bridge at the Kansas River, Martin said.
In a two-hour interview Monday with The Kansas City Star, Martin recalled being taken out of the car once at the riverbank in an industrial area. He claimed he saw other officers — two of whom he remembers only by last name — and was told to get to his knees. As he faced the dark water, the officers took his crack cocaine and hundreds of dollars he made selling drugs or cutting his friends’ hair, Martin testified under oath earlier this year as part of another man’s lawsuit.
