It was after midnight when a fight broke out between two men at a bar in Wisconsin in 2017, prompting two other men to try to break up the fight, including Jimmie Sanders, a 33-year-old Black man.

However, one of the men fighting pulled out a gun, and a single shot was fired, sending customers running out of the bar, which drew the attention of Appleton Police Lt. Jay Steinke, who was on foot patrol outside the bar with another cop.

Steinke drew his own gun and entered the bar, firing four shots — one of which struck Sanders in the back and killed him — even though he was trying to break up the fight.

Sander’s mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit, obtained by Atlanta Black Star, arguing that her son’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was shot and killed, even though he was

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