Three members of the Cleveland activist group New Era are suing for alleged civil rights violations tied to their arrest and trial last year.
Antoine Tolbert, Austreeia Everson and Rameer Askew are alleging malicious prosecution, fabrication or destruction of evidence and other civil rights violations in a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of Ohio Tuesday.
Cleveland Division of Police Detective Timothy Hannon along with the city of Cleveland are named in the suit, which describes last year’s trial as an attempt “to punish Plaintiffs for exercising their constitutional rights in a manner that Defendants personally disliked, politically resented, and regarded as a challenge to their authority, image, and pocketbooks.”…