After his testicles swelled following the shooting, Montemayor reportedly had to undergo a surgery which involved “piecing back together” portions of one of his gonads.
A participant of a protest against police brutality last summer in Los Angeles has filed a federal lawsuit over the testicular damage he allegedly sustained back then at the hands of an LAPD officer.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the protester, a 29-year old man named Ben Montemayor, had his testicle explode “into pieces” after getting shot with a hard-foam projectile by a Los Angeles police officer.
Montemayor was allegedly brandishing a large sign calling for the defunding of the LAPD, when police officers in riot gear started advancing.
As he was “walking in the direction he believed police wanted demonstrators to go”, as the newspaper puts it, Montemayor was approached by two officers who “rushed forward, ripped the sign from his hands and shoved him backward”.
Footage from a police body camera reportedly shows Montemayor being shoved by an officer who then shoots the protester “in the groin at relatively close range”.
With LAPD Chief Michel Moore and the city being named as the defendants, the lawsuit seeks to challenge Use of Force Review Board’s finding which states that the officer in question was “in policy” when he shot Montemayor.
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