A Mississippi mother was shot in the head after police opened fire during a car chase
The last thing Sherita Harris remembers before a bullet tore into the back of her head is a friend saying the police were pulling them over.
She woke up in the hospital three days later, her face swollen and mangled.
More than a year has passed since the Aug. 14, 2022, shooting. Harris says she struggles to see, to hear, to eat, to mother her children. At a news conference Wednesday announcing a $3 million lawsuit against Mississippi authorities, Harris said she still doesn’t understand what happened.
“Why did I get shot?” Harris asked through tears. “This changed my life forever. I can never be me, so money don’t cover it.”
Her search for answers and accountability led her to file the lawsuit in federal court in Jackson against the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, the Mississippi Capitol Police and two officers involved in a traffic stop that erupted into gunfire and injured her.
Harris was a passenger in a car the officers tried to pull over in downtown Jackson that August night, the lawsuit states. Harris’ lawsuit accuses both officers of excessive force and says they had a duty to avoid “shooting blindly into a moving vehicle.” They should have known, the lawsuit states, that it was unsafe and violated the Capitol Police’s policies.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mississippi-capitol-police-jackson-shooting-head-mother-rcna93833
So "failing to stop for a red light" is an excuse to shoot into a car? Mississhitty Goddam!
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