Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office deputies accused of using excessive force ... - The New Orleans Advocate
Advocate staff photo by SCOTT THRELKELD -- Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand releases information Sunday, April 26, 2015, about the arrest of two suspects in an apparently random, execution-style killing of David and Nicholas Pence in Metairie. Degruy was booked into Jefferson Parish Correctional Center with two counts of Accessory After the Fact to First Degree Murder and one count of Vehicle Burglary. Allen is in Orleans Parish Prison, with a Jefferson Parish hold on him for two counts of First Degree Murder. The lawsuit, filed Monday in U. S. District Court, seeks $4 million in damages from Normand and a trio of plainclothes detectives accused of using excessive force in their arrest of 38-year-old Yimlah Sankofa. “Due to the excess force used by the Jefferson Parish sheriff’s officers, Mr. Sankofa incurred serious, permanent damages and injuries,” the lawsuit says. The detectives — George Kister, John Wiebelt and William Whittington — got out of their vehicle and approached Sankofa’s 2002 Infiniti G20. The lawsuit claims the deputies “pulled Mr. Sankofa out of his vehicle and started beating him up without... Source: www.theneworleansadvocate.com
