The family of a Cottage Grove man who died after a DWI arrest in Eagan last year alleges in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday that police and jail staff mistook symptoms of a major stroke for drug impairment and let him languish for hours without medical treatment.

Kingsley Fifi Bimpong, a legal permanent resident from Ghana, left his post office job before his shift ended on Nov. 16 after complaining of a headache and decreased vision.

While driving in Eagan late that evening, Bimpong, 50, ran a red light, veered into oncoming traffic and drove his vehicle onto the center median of a road.

According to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by attorneys at the Robins Kaplan firm on behalf of Bimpong’s partner Rosalind Lewis and cousin Josephine Adu-Gyane, when Eagan Police Sgt. Joseph Moseng st

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