The Mississippi Black FedEx worker confronted by a white father-son duo with guns has filed a $5 million federal lawsuit alleging assault, battery, and racial discrimination. D’Monterrio Gibson, 25, was chased out of a neighborhood and faced multiple gunshots by Gregory Case and his son Brandon Case while delivering packages for FedEx last year.
“I think about Ahmaud, he didn’t make it, but D’Monterrio did,” Sharon McClendon said of her son, comparing Gibson’s encounter to that of the Black man who was shot dead after being chased down by three white men in a south Georgia subdivision.
Gibson’s attorney, Carlos Moore described the 25-year-old’s case as “eerily similar” to Ahmaud Arbery’s, although Gibson was not injured in his encounter.
Arbery was also chased down by a white father-son duo Gregory and Travis McMichael in February 2020. The McMichaels shot and killed Arbery in a viral video that contributed to them being convicted of murder and federal hate crime charges.
Gibson of Jackson, Mississippi, is suing the City of Brookhaven, Mississippi, the Brookhaven Police Chief, Kenny Collins, and Gregory and Brandon Case. He is also suing his employer, FedEx.
Within Gibson’s lawsuit he says Gregory and Brandon Case “essentially terrorized” him. He claims Police Chief Collins and the City of Brookhaven “deliberately delayed the proper investigation” and consequently “delayed the arrest” of Gregory and Brandon Case. The Cases were given eight days to turn themselves in and charged with aggravated assault and conspiracy and released from custody the same day.
“The Chief and the City engaged in obstruction of justice by delaying the indictments,” Moore said.
The Cases charges were upgraded by a grand jury on Nov. 18, 2022, to attempted murder, conspiracy and shooting at a motor vehicle.
The lawsuit also alleges, “FedEx sent him back on the same dangerous route the following day,…
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