The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Louisville, claims police used excessive force, lied about it and violated protocol by not having EMS take him to a hospital after he was repeatedly tased.
During the struggle, according to one officer, Clarke yelled out “God help me. They’re gonna kill me,” and repeatedly referenced George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis man who died in 2020 after a white officer knelt on his neck as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe.”
A summary of the investigation by KSP concluded Clarke refused to get on the ground upon command, prompting the use of a K-9 and tasers to get him down and handcuffed.
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