An attorney defending the city of Eugene against a police excessive force lawsuit on Tuesday, Sept. 23, questioned a man shot by police, bringing up how parts of the man’s “story” had not been shared with sheriff’s office investigators when they reviewed the 2016 shooting.
Edgar T. Rodriguez took the witness stand for the second day as part of a civil trial in U.S. District Court in Eugene. He was shot by police while holding a gun outside his apartment and has filed the lawsuit alleging excessive force, battery and negligence.
On the trial’s first day, Rodriguez testified that early on the morning of Sept. 10, 2016, he stood outside near his door when he heard someone say “gun” and he was shot, and that he flung a pistol he was holding by its barrel perhaps some 20 feet in a direction away from him…