A homeless man living on national forest land was shot by federal police. He's now suing
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A Idaho family's violent eviction is one of the most egregious cases of unhoused people facing hostility from police for having nowhere else to go.

You can debate the need to arrest, but creating a ruse that ends up with the man being shot several times?

  • NeuromancerOPEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    You must have missed this part.

    The attempt to arrest the Roberts family in May escalated because authorities snuck up on the family and pretended to be members of the public, the tort claim says.

    “I thought he was being carjacked and that they either could have stabbed or shot him. I thought they were carjackers,” he said.