In this image from Windsor, Va., police body camera footage, U.S. Army Lt. Caron Nazario is helped by an EMT after he was pepper-sprayed by Windsor police during a traffic stop in Windsor, Dec. 20, 2020. In a legal brief filed in the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., on Monday, Oct.
2, 2023, Nazario argues that a U.S. District Court judge was wrong when he found in a ruling before the trial that officers Joe Gutierrez and Daniel Crocker had probable cause to believe Nazario committed the crimes of eluding police, obstruction of justice and failure to obey an order from a police officer. (Windsor Police/AP)
RICHMOND, Va.— A U.S. Army lieutenant who was struck, pepper-sprayed and handcuffed during a traffic stop in Virginia asked a federal appeals court on Monday to overturn rulings by a trial judge after jurors found mostly in favor of the two police officers he sued.
Video of the December 2020 encounter between Lt. Caron Nazario and Windsor police officers was viewed millions of times and highlighted Black drivers’ fears of police mistreatment.
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