Veteran Files $25 Million Lawsuit Against Fairfield PD After They Tased His Eye Which Pulverized It

"A man who said he lost his left eye after Fairfield police stunned him with a Taser shock weapon filed a $25 million federal civil rights lawsuit, accusing officers of using excessive force.

Jerome Hill, 31, who described himself as a six-year U.S. Army veteran who served in the Iraq War, said in a lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that he was forcibly removed from a car parked near his home on June 2, 2014, by Fairfield police Sgt. Rebecca Belk and Officer Michael Ambrose.

During a struggle, the officers Tased him in his left eyeball, back and thigh, according to the lawsuit.

After the Taser dart was removed by doctors at a Fairfield hospital, his left eye was also removed “as it was pulverized by the barbed Taser electrode,” the suit says.

In November, Hill posted a 10-minute video on YouTube that appears to show the incident from Belk’s body camera."

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