After a Black man was fatally shot in the back by a Portland police officer while running away during a response to an armed robbery call in November 2022, he was left to bleed out for nearly 30 minutes and later died at a hospital, according to a lawsuit filed by a representative of the man’s estate.
The lawsuit accuses the officer – who shot Immanueal Jaquez Clark, 30, with an AR-15 rifle – and the city of Portland, Oregon, of excessive force, negligence for failing to provide emergency medical care, and wrongful death in a federal lawsuit filed March 7.
Several Portland Police Bureau officers responded to a call of an attempted robbery of a person parked at a fast food restaurant shortly after midnight on Nov. 19, 2022, and were informed that the suspects were white, according to the lawsuit.
“The victim told the 911 dispatcher that [three to four] white men were involved in the robbery, and they left in a sedan heading west on Powell Boulevard,” according to the lawsuit.
“The victim was only able to describe the gunman as a white man wearing a ski mask and a black hoodie. The victim provided no further description of any of the suspects other than that they were ‘definitely’ white men,” the complaint continues.
Officers then followed a vehicle without probable cause that its occupants were involved in the robbery and approached it after the car with multiple people stopped in a church’s parking lot, according to the complaint.
The officers attempted a “high-risk felony stop” of the non-running vehicle that Clark was standing near in a parking lot, according to the lawsuit, which claims the officers “wrongly and unreasonably believed this car was involved” in the attempted robbery attempt about 20 minutes prior.
When officers approached while Clark stood near the driver’s door, he ran off and a Portland officer shot the man in the back, according to the lawsuit.
Another passenger, Damon Dubois – a…
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