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Associated Press - November 4, 2009 11:04 AM ET
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minneapolis police chief says the FBI will review an officer's use of a stun gun on a suspect who claims his civil rights were violated.
Chief Tim Dolan says the city attorney will also take a look at the case involving Rolando Ruiz. The man's attorney, Albert Goins Sr., says the officer's only purpose for using the Taser gun on Ruiz was to inflict pain and agony.
A criminal complaint says Ruiz was seen throwing a brick through the windshield of an officer's personal vehicle outside the second precinct building last April.
Goins says dash cam video shows the arresting officer putting the Taser gun to Ruiz's neck and shocking him until he slumped to the ground, incapacitated.
Ruiz is suing the city for $75,000.
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