Vikings defensive tackle Tom Johnson has filed a $75,000 lawsuit against two Minneapolis police officers in connection with an October 2014 incident in which he was pepper-sprayed and tasered outside a popular downtown hangout.
In a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court, the 31-year-old Johnson accused the two officers, Patrick McCarver and John Laluzerne, of a variety of civil rights violations, including excessive force, false arrest and unreasonable seizure.
Johnson claimed that the incident left him “injured, jailed, publicly humiliated and ultimately forced to defend himself from criminal charges” after the officers painted him as the aggressor in police reports.