LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A police officer lied in an arrest report to justify actions after June 11 ICE protests in downtown Las Vegas, according to a lawsuit from a woman who was shot in the back with a pepper ball as she was complying with an officer's orders.

Kathleen Cavalaro is named as the plaintiff in the first lawsuit filed over actions that night, when hundreds of protesters gathered near the Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse to protest immigration enforcement.

The lawsuit filed on Tuesday in Clark County District Court alleges that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department violated protesters' constitutional rights and fabricated evidence to fit their own narrative of what happened the night of the protests.

A Metro officer identified as J. Tomlinson is named in the lawsuit, alo

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