An elderly Texas man and his partner say in a lawsuit filed Thursday that they were held at gunpoint and subjected to a painful and illegal traffic stop that left him with a broken dialysis port.
Michael Lewis, 67, and Regina Armstead, 57, allege in a federal civil rights lawsuit that they were driving back home in Rosenberg, Texas, after picking up lunch when they were pulled over by police. The lawsuit says that Rosenberg police officers, who were searching for a group of teens that had allegedly brandished a gun, held the couple at gunpoint, handcuffed and detained them, unlawfully searched their car and seized Armstead's phone, and destroyed a life-saving medical device installed in his arm, all despite the couple obviously not being teenagers.
