SD to Pay $875K: White Cops Shot a Black Man w/Bean Bags while He Had His Hands Up, Then Ordered 2 Police Dogs to Attack Him as He Laid in Fetal Position, Causing Broken Leg, Hadn't Committed a Crime

From [HERE] The San Diego City Council will vote on whether or not to approve a $875,000 payout to an unarmed, defenseless Black man who was shot with three bean bag rounds and attacked by a police canine in October 2024 while he was surrendering to police - though he had committed no crime.

On Tuesday, city councilmembers are expected to approve the settlement payment to Marcus Evans, who suffered a broken leg and other injuries during the October 24, 2024, confrontation with police at Evans’ South San Diego home (Blacks are prohibited from carrying guns). 

According to the lawsuit, police were called to a home on Duluth Avenue near Encanto in response to a call that a man with a gun had entered a home. (Blacks are prohibited from carrying guns).

When police arrived, officers called the occupants of the home outside. Four people exited, with arms raised.

In the video, Evans can be seen walking out of the house without shoes or a shirt, holding his hands in the air. He told officers “I have no gun,” then sat down on a ledge near the home with his hands still up. SDPD later confirmed he did not have a firearm.

Shortly after he sat on the ledge, the first of three beanbag rounds was fired, hitting him in the abdomen and causing him to fall on to several steps below in visible pain.

An officer can then be heard shouting “We said hands” as Evans is lying in a fetal position, to which he responds by trying to show his hands. He also can be heard asking officers “Why you shoot me?”

A few minutes later, Evans can be seen sitting up on a step outside the house, still with his arms up. That is when the second round is fired and the K-9 is released on him, the video shows. The dog appears to bite his arm as he can be heard saying, “Stop please.”

Following more back and forth with officers from the step, the third round is fired and the police K-9 is released a second time, again biting his arm. Evans can be heard in the video crying out in pain as the dog thrashes with his arm and pulls him down the steps onto the ground.

As several officers surround him to place him in handcuffs, Evans can be heard pleading, “I can’t feel my hand, please stop.

The Black man’s attorneys say that when the first beanbag round was fired, their client had his hands raised while telling officers he was unarmed and not resisting.

The first shot struck him in the abdomen, causing him “immediate injury” and sending him to the ground, where he lay in the fetal position, they said. With his hands still raised, a second beanbag round was fired and a dog was sent in, making “contact with Mr. Evans.”

The attorneys say a second dog caused Evans “severe bite injuries” before he was shot with a final beanbag round, though he was “not displaying any threatening behavior.” In the claim they wrote that “his left arm was mauled by the K9 unit.”[MORE]

SDPD said Evans was later transported to a hospital for treatment of the injuries sustained to his arm, stomach, chest, groin and shin. The charges he was initially taken into custody for — assault with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest — were later dropped.

Pride argues the incident caused needless, yet severe harm to Evans, forcing him to leave a job in construction he only recently obtained.