A gig driver badly mauled by a police canine is suing a San Francisco space suburb, alleging use of extreme pressure and violation of civil rights when police stopped him in December 2020 after he had missed automobile rental funds.
Dashboard and body-camera movies obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle present an unresisting Ali Badr wailing in ache, his arm within the enamel of an aggressive San Ramon police canine for greater than a minute as officers tried to cuff him.
“I by no means do nothing,” Badr yelled to officers, the movies present. “I by no means in my life do something.”
Badr, a 42-year-old resident of Oakland, has pushed for Uber and Lyft and began delivering meals for DoorDash when the pandemic hit, the information outlet reported. Pressured to surrender his personal automobile because of declining revenue, he agreed to lease a Toyota Camry owned by startup CarMommy, which caters to gig staff, in response to the lawsuit.
He informed The Chronicle that he fell behind on funds, however informed the corporate he would pay them shortly. It was one thing he had carried out earlier than, he mentioned. However CarMommy CEO and cofounder John Blomeke had reported the automobile stolen, mentioned Matthew Haley, Badr’s lawyer, ensuing within the automobile’s license plate quantity being listed in a state Division of Justice database shared amongst companies.
Badr was driving to work at a gasoline station when the plate triggered one of many metropolis’s license plate readers, alerting police of a car reported as stolen. Officers in a half-dozen vehicles pulled him over, weapons drawn and canine barking. He ended up being rushed to the hospital for surgical procedure.
San Ramon Police Chief Craig Stevens informed the information outlet in an e mail that the division performed an inside investigation into the arrest of Badr, however declined to reply different questions citing the lawsuit.
Badr filed a federal lawsuit final month towards the town of San Ramon, its police chief, and a number of other law enforcement officials. He’s additionally suing CarMommy, Blomeke, and HyreCar Inc. of Los Angeles, which brokered the rental.
HyreCar, San Ramon’s metropolis lawyer, CarMommy and Blomeke didn’t return messages from the Chronicle looking for remark.
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