‘A Coverup’: White Cops Yanked Black Man Out of Car at Gunpoint and Beat Him, Then Realized They Had the Wrong Guy, But Their Supervisor Had a Plan

Wesley Eggleston II was sitting in his car doing nothing illegal when four white Pennsylvania cops opened his doors and attacked him, pointing a gun at his chest before pulling him out onto the street, then choking, punching, kneeing and tasering the 42-year-old Black man without explanation.

It was only after Eggleston was battered, bruised, and handcuffed on the ground that the four cops realized they had made a mistake and removed the handcuffs.

But a police supervisor arrived on the scene and tried to justify the abuse by claiming Eggleston had tried to flee the scene.

But that was a lie, according to a lawsuit filed on Jan. 16 in federal court, which states the two law enforcement agencies involved in this incident, Pennsylvania State Police and the Parkesburg Police Department, rout inely abuse citizens and ignore their complaints…

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