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Three more police officers are suing former President Donald Trump for the “physical and emotional injuries” they suffered due to the attacks they say he incited at the United States Capitol on January 6 of last year.
Capitol Police Officer Marcus Moore, a ten year veteran of the force, is suing Trump under the Ku Klux Klan Act for having “inflamed, encouraged, incited, directed, and aid and abetted ”in a violent mob siege on January 6, leaving him and other officers with lasting physical and mental injuries.
In the suit, Moore is seeking damages, claiming Trump incited his crazed supporters to riot in an effort to seize the Capitol, which left him suffering from tinnitus, a condition that produces frequent ringing in a person’s ear.
“He continues to suffer severe emotional damage at the end of the insurrection on January 6,” the complaint says.
In addition to Moore, Politico is reporting that two D.C. Metropolitan Police Officers, Bobby Tabron and Dedevine Carter, are also “seeking compensatory damages for their injuries,” caused from “suffering physical assaults with poles, pepper spray, and other projectiles, in addition to hand-to-hand violence” during the January 6 attacks.
Tabron describes being hit in the head while fighting off insurrectionists trying to breach barriers outside the Capitol, and later hit with bats and flagpoles and doused with pepper spray and bear mace.
The lawsuit says both officers ultimately ended up in what became known as the “tunnel of death,” a narrow passageway on the Capitol’s West Front, where they fought off a large crowd of Trump supporters trying to make their way into the building.
“For what felt like hours, Officer Carter was struck, hit with poles, and crushed from every direction. He was sprayed with bear spray more times than he could count. The chemical saturated his mask and caused him to repeatedly vomit on himself. He saw other officers far larger than he overcome and being carried away,” recounts the lawsuit. “He kept telling himself ‘I’m not going to die here,’ and made it his entire purpose to make sure he and the other officers were given cover so they could make it home.”
Both officers describe lasting emotional and psychological trauma. The lawsuit says that Carter likened the experience to war, while Tabron suffers from both insomnia and night terrors “in which he is fighting for his life at what seemed like the end of the world.”
They’re each asking for $75,000 in compensatory damages, and more in punitive damages. It is the fourth lawsuit filed against the former president by officers injured at the Capitol.
These aren’t the first lawsuits filed against Trump for his role in the attacks on January 6. In August, a group of seven police officers filed a lawsuit against the former President, and two other officers filed suit in March of last year.
