A Westminster tattoo artist was smoking a cigar behind his shop when a North Metro Drug Task Force sergeant “neck punched” him and without notice began pummeling him with his fists while serving an arrest warrant, a federal lawsuit says.
Martinez is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages against Sgt. Steven Holton and Det. Ben Russell of the Westminster Police Department and North Metro Drug Task Force.
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