BATON ROUGE — Lawyers for the city of Baton Rouge want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that police officers injured a man arrested during a drug raid and interrogated at the Baton Rouge Police Department’s noted “BRAVE Cave.”
The lawyers filed papers in federal court last week saying there were no genuine issues for the court to decide and that the city was entitled to a judgment in its favor. One of several accused officers filed paperwork last month laying out similar claims.
Jeremy Lee says that after he was arrested three years ago, officers kicked, punched and strip-searched him, and that he was hurt so badly that the parish prison wouldn’t accept him unless he had treatment first at a hospital…