Two months after Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies fired 10 shots at a woman accused of trying to run over a deputy with a Dodge Challenger, a lawsuit seeking more than $1 million claims the deputies and the Sheriff’s Office spokesman provided false information on the incident to justify the use of deadly force during the confrontation.
The federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses deputies working as Rancho Cordova police officers of excessive force during a Nov. 20 incident involving 24-year-old Kyrieanna Liles, who was wounded in the shoulder after two deputies fired at her car as she sped away from them.
The suit, filed by Sacramento civil rights attorney Mark Merin, accuses the deputies who fired their weapons of later providing false information about the threat they faced, arguing the Sheriff’s Office issued a “misleading and biased” video news release about the incident that intentionally excluded body camera footage from the two deputies who fired their handguns.