The convenience store owner in Baton Rouge who witnessed and filmed the killing of Alton Sterling at the hands of police last week has sued the police department and five officers alleging they acted improperly and violated his rights.
Meanwhile, a Georgia man originally from Baton Rouge, who was the first to post the video and made it viral, was arrested 24 hours later because he “fit the description of someone wanted for battery,” but was then told he was being arrested for unpaid traffic tickets and led out of his job in handcuffs and leg shackles.
Abdullah Muflahi, who owns the Triple S Food Mart where Sterling was killed, accuses the Baton Rouge officers ofstealing surveillance video and equipment from his store without a warrant,confiscating his cellphone without a warrant,locking him in a hot police car for four hours and not allowing him to use the bathroom. When police finally let him use the bathroom, he was not allowed to go indoors.
