re: Man killed in SPD officer-involved shooting was not armed

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Bagley filed lawsuit against police after 2018 arrest

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Documents show Bagley had a previous run-in with Shreveport police, years before he was killed. Twelve months after Shreveport police allegedly assaulted Bagley during an arrest in January 2018, he filed a federal lawsuit against the department. Bagley required “treatment of a broken occipital orbital eye-socket bones, contusions to the head and face, and a number of his front upper teeth knocked out,” the suit says. During the 2018 incident, officers responded to a domestic dispute between Alonzo and his wife, the complaint states. Bagley was put into handcuffs that “were placed too tightly” on him and he “maneuvered his hands to the front of his body due to the pain and discomfort of being handcuffed behind his back in the back passenger portion of an SPD (Shreveport Police Department) patrol car,” the suit said. According to the court filing, Bagley “was not attempting and did not attempt to escape but only rearranged himself out of the painful position he was in.” One police officer then opened the door and “delivered forceful and several close-fisted strikes to the head and face” and a second officer did not stop the assault, the suit says. Bagley was handcuffed the entire time and offered no resistance, the lawsuit says. In response to the complaint, the city said that one of its officers did open the door of the patrol car, but was assisting Bagley because he was “attempting to strangle or choke himself with the seatbelt.” The city went on to say the officer did strike Bagley’s “head and facial area when Plaintiff (Bagley) covered his head with his arms and prevented Officer Kolb from removing the seatbelt and removing Plaintiff from the vehicle.” It is unclear what the resolution was on the lawsuit. An attorney who represented Bagley in the case did not return calls from CNN seeking comment. Bagley was charged with domestic abuse battery and resisting an officer related to the incident. The domestic abuse charge was dismissed, and he pleaded guilty in February 2018 to the charge of resisting an officer, according to court records. CNN has requested comment from the police department, and filed an open records request with the city to find out more about the 2018 incident. Tyler was not with the department when the 2018 incident occurred.

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