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by Abraham Gutman Published Nov. 13, 2025, 4:19 p.m. ET

A police officer beat up and used a stun gun on a grieving Northeast Philadelphia man as authorities removed the body of his roommate who had died hours earlier, a new lawsuit says.

The complaint alleges that police officers assaulted Corey Lincoln-Conner and then charged him with aggravated assault based on false statements by the officers on the scene, all while the incident was captured by body-camera footage.

Lincoln-Conner, 34, was the live-in caretaker and friend of a chronically ill man whom he found unresponsive in their house on Jan. 24, according to the complaint, which was filed last week in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas against three poli

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