According to the Miami Herald, A Louisiana family’s lawsuit against a sheriff’s deputy for excessive force will proceed in court, following a new ruling. The suit alleges that Deputy Gintz followed Wesley Pigott and his children for miles in an unmarked car before holding them at gunpoint in an empty parking lot. 

Delia Addo-Yobo, staff attorney at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, condemned the incident, stating, “No child should ever have to witness their parent being held and threatened at gunpoint by a police officer.” The organization, along with the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center, is representing the Pigott family in their lawsuit against the Louisiana sheriff’s deputy for excessive force.

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