The family of a suicidal man who was killed by police in Boise’s North End neighborhood has sued the Boise Police Department, arguing that the agency used excessive force to apprehend him when half a dozen officers opened fire.
Macey Juker’s family, in a 26-page lawsuit, alleged that the Police Department violated the 28-year-old’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights to be free from “undue and unreasonable force” in the 2023 shooting.
“Juker was undoubtedly scared, intoxicated, suicidal, suffering from hallucinations and a diminished mental state,” the family’s Blackfoot-based attorney, Chip Giles, wrote in the proposed complaint filed in June. Giles declined to comment further on the lawsuit when reached by phone…