By Sheryl Estrada
Jason Goolsby, a Washington, D.C., college student who was forcibly detained by police because he made a white woman feel “uncomfortable” while using an ATM last October, is suing the District for $1 million in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages.
According to Goolsby’s lawsuit, an officer threatened to use pepper spray on him if he refused to get on the ground. It also states that he ran from officers because he had done nothing wrong and he was scared. Officers later determined no crime was committed and Goolsby was released. He is also suing the police officers involved and the police dispatcher.
