SPRINGFIELD ACLU LAWSUIT
A FEDERAL LAWSUIT WAS FILED YESTERDAY (WEDNESDAY) REGARDING THE RIGHTS OF A PRIVATE CITIZEN WHO BEARED WITNESS TO ICE ARRESTS IN SPRINGFIELD
THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FILED THE LAWSUIT AGAINST ICE AGENTS ON BEHALF OF SEAN MOORMAN, A SPRINGFIELD RESIDENT WHO WAS OBSERVING AND FILMING ICE ARRESTS IN SPRINGFIELD. THE LAWSUIT ALLEGES THAT SEVEN ICE OFFICERS SUBJECTED MOORMAN TO TARGETED INTIMATION, MENACING AND PURSUIT AFTER THEY SPOTTED HIM FILMING AND DOCUMENTING THEIR RAIDS IN SPRINGFIELD. THE CLAIMS INCLUDE VEHICULAR MENACING, BOXING HIM IN HIS CAR AT A RESTAURANT PARKING LOT AND STALLKING HIM BY FOLLOWING HIM HOME AND INTIMIDATING HIS FAMILY.