Ferguson Again Sued Over Actions of Officer Eddie Boyd
The city of Ferguson has been hit with yet another lawsuit over the conduct of police officer Eddie Boyd.
Boyd — who left his job as a St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer after being investigated for pistol whipping a sixteen-year-old boy, as well as a twelve-year-old girl in a separate incident — has been accused in previous lawsuits of harassing a NGA contractor, arresting a resident who dared to ask his name and terrorizing a father of four after his two-year-old peed outside during a park outing. Even though he was Exhibit A in a CBS News report about how problem cops drift from department to department, he remains employed by the Ferguson Police.
In this latest incident, Boyd is accused of arresting Robert Mentzel in July 2014 after Mentzel tried to record his traffic stop. The lawsuit, filed by Kiara Drake of Khazaeli Wyrsch LLC, accuses of Boyd of unlawful retaliation for Mentzel exercising his First Amendment rights.
Mentzel owns property in Ferguson, and was visiting in order to mow the grass. As the suit details, his sister was driving when Boyd pulled over their pickup truck and demanded identification from not only the driver, but also Mentzel and his employee. When Mentzel "calmly" asked why Boyd wanted their identification, the suit says, Boyd grew "incensed" and demanded it two more times.
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