A family from Pittsburgh has filed a civil rights lawsuit against police for allegedly tasing a reverend while he was praying over his dead stepson's body.
According to Thinkprogress, Reverend Earl Baldwin Jr. says that he was trying to say his last goodbyes to 23-year-old Mileek Grissom in the UPMC Mercy Hospital when police interfered. Rev. Baldwin Jr. claims the police knocked him down and tased him, causing him to fall underneath the table his dead son was lying on.
Grissom was shot it in the chest while trying to break up a street fight.
The family has decided to take legal action against the police and have video footage from the hospital showing the attack.
Police have yet to release a statement on the matter, but claim that the revered was trying to revive his son and conflicting with the doctors at the hospital.
"I needed to tell him his family was going to be OK," Baldwin said. "I was going to do everything I could to make sure they were OK."
The family has denied the allegations, and claim that Grissom was not being treated at the time of his mourning. Grissom's mother, Tori Baldwin says she was also denied entry into the hospital to see her son.
Source: Think Progress
