Crime & Safety
Man Tasered By Hercules Police After Crashing His Car During Seizure Files Lawsuit
The suit alleges Hercules police used excessive force and claims their body cam footage provides proof.
February 10, 2025
Police in the East Bay are facing a new lawsuit for an incident where officers tasered a man who had just had a seizure and crashed his vehicle because he wasn't obeying officers' orders to get out of his car.
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The suit alleges Hercules police used excessive force and claims their body cam footage provides proof.
The young man's lawyer says he has epilepsy and had a seizure while he was driving, ending up crashing his car into a ravine. That was the call Hercules police were responding to when the incident happened last April.
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