Jason Goolsby, who was tackled and arrested by the Metropolitan police after a woman at an ATM said she made him feel “uncomfortable,” ran from the officer because he “feared for his life.”
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A lawyer for Jason Goolsby, the 18-year-old who was chased, tackled and detained by the Metropolitan police on Monday after a woman reported he made her "uncomfortable" at a Washington, D.C. ATM, said they are considering legal action against those responsible for the incident.
Goolsby and his friend, Michael Brown, were released after the police told them it was a "misunderstanding." Footage of the incident, recorded by Brown, spread on social media and sparked outrage as yet another incident of alleged police misconduct against unarmed black men.
Goolsby's lawyer said at a press conference Thursday that they would be looking into whether the teenager and his friend's civil rights were violated after they were "brutalized" by the police "for no other reason than the fact they were black." He also said they would look at Fourth and Fifth Amendment violations.
"Being black is not probable cause for being arrested or detained," Goolsby's lawyer said, adding that they would consider filing a lawsuit after their investigation into the incident was complete. "I have zero doubt that if these young men were white, none of this would have happened," he said.
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