Civil rights attorney Ben Crump has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the University of Pennsylvania claiming that a police officer fired a Taser at 52-year-old Ronald Harmon and caused the injury that killed him.
According to Crump, Harmon died from a head injury he sustained while getting hit with a Taser on Nov. 5, 2024. The attorney also said that the Taser was wrongfully deployed in the encounter.
“We know that Ronald Harmon was not a threat to police at the time, he was running away,” Crump said at a press conference on Monday. “They violated their own policies when they Tased him from behind.”…