A court has decided that a federal complaint alleging that Clackamas County SWAT officers colluded to use excessive force against a 24-year-old Black man due in part to racial animosity can go to trial.
According to the lawsuit, on June 18, 2022, during a traffic check in Milwaukie, Derrick Dewayne Clark Jr. was shot twice by other cops as he fled, and SWAT members allegedly laughed, joked, and ignored his agony while letting him slowly die.
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