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Members of the Revolutionary Black Panther Party are threatening to sue the Milwaukee Police Department and others over alleged violations of constitutional and civil rights.
The group said Wednesday it plans to file a $400 million lawsuit against police — including several specific officers — and the city alleging that its members and associates have been followed, harassed and threatened by police.
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The group has not yet filed a lawsuit.
In one alleged incident, officers responded to a call about someone carrying a gun and arrested a 21-year-old Milwaukee man with an open warrant who they say was unsafely handling a firearm. Police were then encircled by several people and they had to physically be moved back.
That incident happened shortly after members of the group, some of them armed, marched through the Sherman Park neighborhood to protest violence by law enforcement officers.
The group says its mission is to feed, clothe, shelter, train and defend African-Americans.
