Janelle Griffith is a national reporter for NBC News focusing on issues of race and policing.
A woman in Florida has sued the sheriff of a department that came under scrutiny this month in the fatal shooting of a Black Air Force senior airman, alleging that she was twice forced out of her home naked as deputies executed warrants at her home. LaTanya Griffin, who said she was neither arrested nor charged after the encounters, seeks damages of more than $1 million from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.
The suit contends Carpenter failed to exercise his supervisory authority to stop the constitutional violation. Once they were outside her residence, Griffin’s children watched her “during her naked detention for a substantial amount of time,” the lawsuit says, adding that her hands were zip-tied or handcuffed behind her back. Though she objected, Griffin remained naked in the presence of multiple law enforcement officers, the suit says.
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