Another Black Person's Lawsuit Against Police for Murder Dismissed w/o a Trial: Video Showed a Plainclothes Newark Cop Jump Out an Unmarked Van and Shoot Carl Dorsey. White Fed Judge Tosses Case

From [HERE] A federal judge has dismissed a civil rights lawsuit filed by the estate of Carl Dorsey III, a 39-year-old man fatally shot by a Newark police detective just after midnight on New Year’s Day in 2021.

U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton ruled Thursday that the City of Newark cannot be held liable for Dorsey’s death under federal law, rejecting claims that the city had a longstanding custom of tolerating excessive force and failed to properly train its officers.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for New Jersey by Tamara Fong, the administrator of Dorsey’s estate and guardian to his three minor children.

In the complaint, Fong alleged that Detective Rod Simpkins shot Dorseywithout justification while patrolling a high-crime area in plain clothes.

According to court documents, Simpkins exited an unmarked police SUV with his gun drawn and bumped into Dorsey, then turned and shot him in the chest.

Fong claimed Dorsey was unarmed and attempting to cross the street when he was shot and killed.

Surveillance video capturing the killing shows a group of 12 plainclothes officers pull up in unmarked cars to South 11th Street and Dorsey crossing the street toward them.

Simpkins and Dorsey collide, and then Simpkins shoots him. Dorsey, a 39-year-old father of three, died an hour later after being transported to University Hospital in Newark.

Robert Tarver, attorney for the family, noted the video shows Simpkins turning his body and firing toward Dorsey after they collide. The Attorney General’s Office describes the shooting like this: “As Det. Simpkins was falling to the ground, his service weapon discharged once, striking Mr. Dorsey.” 

“As if it had done that by itself,” Tarver said.

Dorsey lay bleeding on the sidewalk while officers searched him and the surrounding area but did not provide medical aid, the complaint said.

He was later pronounced dead at University Hospital.

Fong’s lawsuit claimed the city had a pattern of excessive force and inadequate oversight, citing past incidents, statistics, and findings from a federal monitor overseeing police reforms in Newark.

However, Wigenton said those claims weren’t strong enough to hold the city legally responsible under the rules set by the U.S. Supreme Court in Monell v. Department of Social Services.

Naturally, the white liberal Attorney General Matt Platkin — whose office must investigate all police-involved fatalities - failed to file any charges against the white cop.