Upper Moreland Police Subject Of Lawsuit Claiming Police Brutality And False Arrest

By Jim Melwert

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Upper Moreland police are being sued by a man who was dragged off a SEPTA bus and tasered repeatedly in the parking lot of a Willow Grove convenience store.

The civil lawsuit alleges violation of constitutional rights, false arrest, false imprisonment, assault and battery at the hands of Upper Moreland police sergeant Peter Ruddell and Officer Matthew Snyder.

It happened in October 2013, Jeremiah Kendrick was on his way to work when a SEPTA bus driver yelled at him to turn his music down.

Kendrick's attorney, Thomas Malone, says his client was wearing earbuds and it wasn't his music.

But he says when police arrived, they shouted and cursed at his client, threw him off the bus and used a taser on him twice as he was on the ground outside the bus.

Criminal charges against Kendrick were dropped when video from inside the bus contradicted police testimony.

Upper Moreland police declined comment. The Montgomery county DA's office says the incident remains under review