GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – The mother of a man shot and killed by Green Bay police officers filed a wrongful death civil lawsuit in federal court late Tuesday.
Toni Biegert, acting as the administrator for the estate of Joseph Biegert, filed the suit against the City of Green Bay, then-Chief Tom Molitor and a dozen police officers.
The city has not been formally served with the lawsuit yet.
It was filed electronically after regular business hours Tuesday. No comment yet from the city.
According to the lawsuit, Biegert was “unlawfully subjected to excessive force when he was shot and killed on February 24, 2015.”
The 22-page suit says police responded to an apartment on Plymouth Lane for a welfare check.
It says it was “widely known” by police that he had a mental illness but was non-violent in encounters with police.
He resisted when the officers prepared to take him into custody without any probable cause.
Police said Biegert stabbed an officer, who then returned fire. According to Dept. of Justice review a second officer also shot Biegert.
The Brown County District Attorney’s office reviewed the case, and determined the officers would not face criminal charges.
