WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court docket will not hear a civil rights case introduced by the mother and father of an adolescent who was bare and unarmed when he was fatally shot by an Oklahoma police officer in 2019.
The excessive courtroom on Monday rejected with out remark the lawsuit purchased by the mother and father of Isaiah Lewis. Police have mentioned that the 17-year-old was shot after he broke into a house in Edmond and attacked two officers. They’ve mentioned {that a} stun gun had no impact on him.
Lewis’ attorneys wrote that on the day he was shot he had inadvertently smoked marijuana laced with PCP. His mother and father argued that he was experiencing a psychological well being disaster and that police used extreme power.
An post-mortem report discovered Lewis suffered a complete of 4 gunshot wounds to his face, thighs and groin.
A federal trial courtroom decide had allowed the lawsuit towards the officer who shot Lewis to go ahead, however a three-judge panel of the tenth U.S. Circuit Court docket of Appeals in Denver reversed that ruling. The Supreme Court docket’s determination to not take the case leaves the appeals courtroom ruling in place.