A controversial police shooting that killed an unarmed black man in Smyrna in 2015 has spawned a lawsuit against police by members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Cobb County, who claimed police attempted to squelch their efforts to educate the public about the shooting during a city festival last year.
SCLC members who filed the suit Monday in federal court in Atlanta contend that Smyrna police violated their constitutional rights when officers directed them to stop handing out leaflets at the Spring Jonquil Festival on the city’s village green and ordered them to leave the area. Richard Pellegrino and Aaron Bridges were handing out leaflets to protest the shooting death of Nicholas Thomas by a Smyrna police officer when they were confronted.
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