U S Army officer sues two Virginia police for assault during traffic stop
U.S. Army second lieutenant Caron Nazario filed a lawsuit against two Virginia police officers in federal court over what court papers say was a violent traffic stop in December 2020.
Nazario was pulled over while driving his new SUV with temporary paper tags in Windsor, Virginia, a town 70 miles southeast of Richmond.
Bodycam footage was showing the officers pulling their guns on Nazario who sat in his SUV in his uniform. The suit goes on to say during the arrest Nazario had his hands up, offered no resistance, but was pepper-sprayed and violently knocked to the ground and detained.
The police chief responded to the scene and Nazario was released without charges, the lawsuit says.