Florida Cops Sued for Brutality

An attorney for Matthew Lawson, 20, filed a $1 million suit on Tuesday, accusing officers Curtis Schock, Steve Ricker and Paul Vardakis of shocking Lawson with a Taser, sending a K-9 to attack and bite him, and punching and kicking his body, causing him to lose a tooth.

Lawson was initally charged with battery on an officer and resisting arrest with violence after the officers questioned him while he walked down the street and he did not stop.

In a five-page letter to the town of Davie, attorney Gary Kollin argued that the officers' "absurd" reports were contradicted by two eye witnesses, and questionable due to dark conditions on the sidewalk-less street. He wrote that their descriptions of Lawson's alleged resistance against three officers and the K-9 would have required "superhuman" strength unlikely for the 5' 11", 200-pound 18-year-old high school student. Read more;