A Richland County couple and their three children have filed a federal lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Public Safety and a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper, alleging the trooper wrongfully conducted a high-risk, weapons-drawn “felony stop” on their family.
The complaint, filed March 31 in the U.S. District Court in Columbia, was brought by Kartrez Rush and Jasmine Scott on behalf of themselves and their three minor children after they were pulled over, immediately held at gun point and cuffed with little explanation, according to the filing.
It names the South Carolina Department of Public Safety and Trooper Kyle J. Lyman, who is sued in his individual capacity, as defendants…