An Indianapolis man shot at least 30 times by police is filing a lawsuit against the officers who unloaded a barrage of bullets into the rental car he was sleeping in at his grandmother’s home.
“I just looked to my right and left and immediately was getting shot at,” Anthony Maclin said during a press conference.
Maclin, 24, was awakened to the sight of several police officers with their guns drawn and pointed at him before firing multiple gunshots.
Police said they received a 911 call around 4 a.m. on Dec. 31, 2022, about a suspicious vehicle. The caller, Vicki Driver, who is Maclin’s grandmother, told the dispatcher, “There’s a car backed up in my driveway, and it sounds like it’s still running.”
Driver went on to say she turned her porch light on and off, and no one got out. She said she didn’t know if it was one of her kids because no one exited the vehicle.
When three Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers arrived, they approached the vehicle and can be heard on body-worn camera saying, “he’s got a gun right there on his lap.”
It’s unclear, based on the edited video, how long officers probed the car, looking inside to see the sleeping man. The officers asked Driver if she had relatives in Florida where the rental car was registered carrying Florida plates. The woman said she did not have any relatives living in Florida.
According to police, after three minutes of probing the car, they knocked on the passenger side window, which awoke Maclin. As he began to move, the officers started yelling, “Police! Police! Police!”
Some 10 seconds after knocking on the window and yelling “police,” the officers started firing more than a dozen rounds into the vehicle.
As the gunfire subsides, Driver can be heard yelling in the background, “What?! That’s my grandson!”
The officers yelled at Maclin to get out of the car.
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