The family of Anthony Harden, the man shot and killed by Fall River police in 2021, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and several members of its police department.

Eric Mack, Harden’s brother who oversees his estate, along with his other brother – Antone Harden – filed the civil rights lawsuit earlier this month in Massachusetts federal court. The family accused police of unlawfully killing Harden and then covering it up by making it look like he had attacked police with a knife.

The men also accused the city of illegally detaining Antone at gunpoint the same night Harden was killed in violation of his civil rights. Antone lived in the same building and police took him in handcuffs to headquarters after the shooting where they were “pressuring him to give them information that police could try to use to support the false narrative” about Harden, according to the lawsuit.  

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