<div>More than a month after a video surfaced of 42-year-old Billy Lee Coram being assaulted by former Jonesboro police officer Joseph Harris, Coram is taking his case to court.Coram is suing not only Harris but also the city of Jonesboro and JPD Chief Rick Elliott.National Civil Rights Attorney Mike Laux will be representing Coram. “Billy Lee Coram was in the middle of a mental health and substance abuse crisis,” Laux said. “He needed medical intervention, and what Officer Joseph Harris did was just the opposite. So we’re suing him.”Officer Harris was fired from the department shortly after the video surfaced. Coram’s attorney calls that a good thing. However, Attorney Laux tells us that the City of Jonesboro and Chief Elliott also need to be held accountable.“Based on the prior acts of Joseph Harris and based on the prior misconduct of other officers there, the city and the chief were alerted or should have reasonably been alerted to the problems that would invariantly flow from that,” Laux said.Coram’s complaint to the court also cited a separate violent incident that which former Officer Harris was involved in 2022. Harris was suspended without pay for that incident, but not fired.Neither the city of Jonesboro nor the police chief would comment on the lawsuit.Coram and his lawyers seek financial compensation, a revamped training protocol for the JPD, as well as an investigation of the JPD by the Department of Justice.</div>

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Man sues former officer, police chief, City of Jonesboro after being beaten

More than a month after a video surfaced of 42-year-old Billy Lee Coram being assaulted by former Jonesboro police officer Joseph Harris, Coram is taking his case to court. Coram is suing not only Harris but also the city of Jonesboro and JPD Chief Rick Elliott. National Civil Rights Attorney...