Family Of Man Killed By Police Claims Police Planted Gun
CHICAGO (CBS) -- An attorney for a young man killed by Chicago police officers last summer has suggested police planted evidence to justify the shooting.
The family of 19-year-old Roshad McIntosh filed a federal lawsuit against the city and the Chicago Police Department on Wednesday, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.
When McIntosh was shot and killed, the department and a police union spokesman said he had pointed a gun at officers responding to a call of armed men, and the weapon was recovered at the scene.
His family's attorney, Sarah Gelsomino of the People's Law Office, said eyewitnesses have claimed otherwise.
"Eyewitnesses testified that Roshad was unarmed at the time that he was shot," she said.
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Gelsomino said witnesses have claimed police planted the handgun after killing McIntosh.
"Police officers shot and killed him, despite the fact that he was surrendering himself," she said
McIntosh's mother, Cynthia Lane, stood crying in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse as she Gelsomino discussed the lawsuit.
"I just want justice, that's all. I just want to learn the name of the officer who killed my son," Lane said. "I haven't received the police report. I haven't received anything."
Gelsomino and activists gathered in the lobby of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, where they said McIntosh was just one of many people killed by police without justification.
"In a disturbing pattern of police shootings, and killings of people of color," Gelsomino said.
The Independent Police Review Authority said the McIntosh case remains under investigation.
