A City of Orange resident has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against his police department for officers allegedly using excessive force during a bizarre June 30, 2013, encounter.
According to Jorge Galindo, he was attempting to park his vehicle in his garage when officers approached and demanded to see identification documentation.
While he was in the process of complying, one of the cops shot him “multiple times,” the lawsuit states.
]
Galindo–who hasn't yet learned the identity of involved officers–claims he was unarmed, posed no threat to anyone and is baffled by the use of force when there was “no reasonable suspicion of wrong doing.”
The lawsuit filed in Orange County's Ronald Reagan Federal Courthouse contains nine claims including civil rights violations, battery, negligence as well as an assertion that police have an “animus against minorities.”
Though Galindo claims he suffered “great pain” from injuries to his abdomen and leg, his lawsuit did not specify the wounds, corresponding medical treatment or the number of bullets that entered his body.
He is seeking a jury trial inside U.S. District Court Judge Andrew J. Guilford's courtroom.
Lawyers for the Orange Police Department have not yet responded to Galindo's assertions.
Follow OC Weekly on Twitter @ocweekly or on Facebook!
Email: rs**********@oc******.com. Twitter: @RScottMoxley.
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
greetings,
Did the City of Orange eventually properly settle with Mr. Galindo?
What was the highest amount awarded to a person filled against orange poliçe department in the last 4 years..