An unarmed Black man sitting in his car outside of his home was shot by a police officer, leaving the majority of his body paralyzed. Jajuan Henderson, 29, is now suing the city and members of the police force for damages incurred by the incident.
A copy of the lawsuit, secured by the Atlanta Black Star, names the city of Trenton; the director of Trenton police, Steve E. Wilson; and the four officers from the scene of the incident, listed only by their initials (M.G., C.H., J.C., and J.L.), as defendants and alleges the arresting officers used excessive force, negligence, and racial profiling during the encounter.
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The Burlington City native was parallel parked outside of his home on Feb. 12, according to the filing, when four police officers are said to have boxed his car in, ambushed him with a fusillade of bullets, and left him with injuries that caused him to be paralyzed from the chest down.
Richard Smith, president of the state chapter of the NAACP, introduced the complaint during a press conference, saying, “This incident and incidents like it are all too familiar. These officers — sworn to protect and serve all —rushed to execution. These officers devalued the life of another Black man.”
Despite it being a little past midnight, Henderson said he went outside to retrieve a bottle of iced tea from the vehicle that he accidentally left earlier. He decided to get into the car and sit.
As he “sat lawfully parked in a car with the engine turned off when an unidentified dark car approached and parked next to him, boxing him in,” the filing claims. “A group of men, fully masked and in dark plain clothes, then jumped out of this mysterious vehicle and began yelling at Jajuan. As many others would do in this escalating situation, Jajuan used his cell phone to call for support.”
