The mother of a 26-year-old Philadelphia man fatally shot by police during a 2014 traffic stop has filed suit against the city and two officers.
The civil rights suit, filed Wednesday in federal court, seeks to be certified as a class action lawsuit to include other victims of excessive force by Philadelphia police.
Brandon Tate-Brown was stopped Dec. 15, 2014 by Officers Nicholas Carrelli and Heng Dang on Frankford Avenue.
Police say Tate-Brown had a semiautomatic pistol in his car and a struggle ensued, which ended with Carrelli shooting him in the back of the head.
Tate-Brown was pronounced dead at the scene.
District Attorney Seth Williams didn't charge the officers.
The suit alleges “the powers that be did not want ‘another Ferguson' in Philadelphia.''
