Police Pounced On N.C. Bank Hostage, Complaint Says

Sunday Gazette-Mail › February 28, 2011

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RALEIGH, N.C. - A black man held hostage during a bank robbery says he was thrown to the ground and then kneed, cursed and handcuffed by police after being released from captivity. Authorities say a county prosecutor and the state are reviewing the complaint.

An attorney for Lee Everett sent a letter to authorities in the town of Cary, a suburb west of Raleigh, stating his client is a 52- year-old reverend who was treated roughly by police, unlike white hostages held in the Feb. 10 standoff at a Wachovia branch.

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Police Pounced On N.C. Bank Hostage, Complaint Says

According to the letter, Everett put his hands up as he left the bank earlier in the hourslong drama ...

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