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Just over three years before Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police officers executing a no-knock warrant, a 63-year-old Black Army veteran was killed in St. Louis during the same type of operation.
The case is eerily similar to that of Taylor’s, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by the victim’s family.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the lawsuit over the Feb. 21, 2017 shooting death of Don Clark Sr. names the city of St. Louis and more than 20 of its police officers as defendants.
The suit was filed on behalf of Clark’s family by attorneys for the civil rights group ArchCity Defenders and it alleges that warrants were obtained illegally, that the victim was shot while he was sleeping and that authorities had no reason to target his home in the first place—all of which bears striking resemblance to the details revolving around Taylor’s case.
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