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Dead teen’s family files lawsuit against Wisconsin deputy

FILE - This undated family photo provided by Taleavia Cole shows her brother Alvin Cole, left. Then-Wauwatosa, Wis., Police Officer Joseph Mensah shot and killed the 17-year-old outside a mall in February 2020 after receiving a call of a man with a gun in the mall. The parents of the teenager filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday, July 28, 2022, alleging he used excessive force and that the department he worked for “embraces and promotes” racism. (Taleavia Cole via AP, File) FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Wauwatosa Police Department in Wauwatosa, Wis., shows then-Wauwatosa Police Officer Joseph Mensah. The parents of a teenager who was one of three people who were killed by the former Wisconsin police officer over a five-year span filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday, July 28, 2022, alleging he used excessive force and that the department he worked for “embraces and promotes” racism. (Gary Monreal/Monreal Photography LLC/Wauwatosa Police Department via AP, File)
Dead teen’s family files lawsuit against Wisconsin deputy