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The Minneapolis Police Department is dealing with yet another lawsuit, this time for allegedly using a Taser on a man’s neck while he is seen with his hands on the car and not resisting the officer. The lawsuit comes in a string of others in recent months that have video evidence of alleged police misconduct.

In this lawsuit, Rolando Ruiz is seen just seconds before the incident with his hands on top of the squad car. He appears calm and not resisting arrest. As the police officer approaches, he puts the Taser against his neck and continues using it until he is incapacitated on the ground, screaming.

His attorney, Albert Goins is suing the City of Minneapolis on behalf of Ruiz, asking for $75,000 and discipline against the officer for violating his civil rights. Goins said he hopes to settle out of court, but is willing to take the steps to do so if the city doesn’t cooperate.

WCCO spoke to a Minneapolis police spokesperson who said Chief Tim Dolan hasn’t reviewed the tape and won’t comment on legal matters.

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DOLTON, Ill. (CBS2) A 15-year-old special education student was walking down a hallway at school when he says a police officer grabbed him and threw him to the ground. The teenager says he was beaten and nearly suffocated and much of it was caught on tape.

The teen told his story to CBS 2 Chicago reporter Dave Savini. Read the full story

Updated 09/24/2009 @ 12:56 PM Central

Feds: Suspect hit beauty stores for bomb supplies

By TOM HAYS and DEVLIN BARRETT (AP) – 8 minutes ago

NEW YORK — An Afghan immigrant plotted for more than a year to detonate homemade bombs in the United States, had recently bought bomb-making supplies from beauty supply stores and was looking for “urgent” help in the past two weeks to make explosives, an indictment charged Thursday. Read the full story

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Alonzo Heyward carried a rifle around his low-rent Chattanooga neighborhood one day last month, ranting about suicide and ignoring the pleas of friends for hours before six city police officers surrounded him on his front porch and decided it had to end. Read the full story

(CBS/AP) The Long Island mother who drove her minivan the wrong way down a surburban parkway before crashing in a wreck that killed eight people was drunk and high on marijuana at the time of the accident, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Westchester Country District Attorney Janet DiFiore said a medical examiner’s report found that Diane Schuler’s blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. She says the autopsy also found that Schuler was impaired by marijuana. Read the full story