#BREAKING - CONVENIENCE STORE OWNER .... and eyewitness to the shooting death of Alton Sterling, filed a lawsuit today and the allegations are shocking. The lawsuit alleges police stole surveillance video from his shop, confiscated his cell phone, and locked him inside a car for the next four hours. When Abdullah Muhlafi told them he needed to use the bathroom, they wouldn't let him in his own store - instead, he was escorted to the side of his building and forced to relieve himself right there in full view of the public.
Muhlafi saw police confront and kill Sterling, who was selling CDs with his permission, last Tuesday night. Muhlafi recorded part of the incident in footage that has since gone viral. The video seems to show that Sterling did not have a weapon in his hand when Officer Howie Lake shouted “gun!” and Officer Blane Salamoni fired six shots into his chest.
Muhlafi is suing the officers, police chief Carl Dabadi as well as the Baton Rouge Police Dept. The dept has no comment. #NEWtwist
Source: Curt Autry NBC12