Dallas shooting: Owner of store where Alton Sterling was killed sues police

US: Abdullah Muflahi, the owner of the Triple S Mart convenience store where Alton Sterling was killed has reportedly filed a lawsuit against Baton Rouge, Louisiana and its police department naming officers Blane Salamoni, Howie Lake, Robert Cook, Timothy Ballard, and Police Chief Carl Dabadi.. According to the lawsuit, Muflahi who caught Alton Sterling‘s fatal death on camera accuses authorities of illegally taking him into custody, confiscating his store entire security system without a warrant or his consent, taking his cell phone video, locking him in a squad car for several hours and denying him the right to contact his family and attorney while in police custoy
 

According to Muflahi;

“I felt like a criminal at the time, and there’s one of the detectives that I knocked on the window and told him it was really hot and I asked if I could sit outside by the car,” 

 “And he just got really angry and started saying ‘you need to chill the f**k out until we get this because we’re handling something right now.'”

“It wasn’t right and I shouldn’t have been treated like I was the one who shot the guy,” he added. “They didn’t handcuff me or read me any rights. They just put me in the back of a car. The seat was really hot and it felt like I was sitting on hot coals.”

Muflahi attorney, Joel Porter said;

“Not only did Sterling lose his life but my client lost his liberty,” 

 “They act like this is a police state, like it’s North Korea, like they can do this without impunity.”

“This was done in order to intimidate my client,” Porter said. 

“They did not want him to tell the truth.”

The US Department of Justice is currently investigating the controversial death of Sterling, a black man who was fatally shot after he was pinned down by two Baton Rouge police officers.