A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against two sheriff’s deputies after body camera footage contradicted early police accounts of a February 2024 traffic stop that ended with him being slapped while handcuffed—an incident now central to renewed scrutiny around police brutality.
The encounter occurred on February 9, 2024, when Dwon Ellis Jr. left a cemetery where he had been honoring what would have been his late son’s seventh birthday.
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