ATLANTA,None — Atlanta police face another lawsuit connected to its now-disbanded Red Dog unit.
On Tuesday, four of the five plaintiffs in the suit spoke out at the state Capitol in downtown Atlanta.
The men said members of the Red Dog unit accused them of having drugs, pulled down their pants and then forced them to expose themselves.
"It was such an embarrassing, and I would say a violating, moment," Trenton Boyd said.
Boyd, like the other men listed in the lawsuit, said the inappropriate searches happened in the middle of the day.
Jason Walker told Channel 2's Erica Byfield the Red Dog officers searched him at 4 p.m. in front of the Chappel Forest Apartments in northwest Atlanta in September of 2009.
"They are just looking at me laughing at me like it's a joke," Walker said.
The lawsuit said Boyd, Vance Perry, and cousins Kacy Daniel and Antonio Daniel were all searched in 2010.
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Boyd told Byfield a group of officers stopped him outside Chanterelles Restaurant in southwest Atlanta.
"After that they went into my boxers, in my boxers around my genital area," he said.
The Daniel cousins said they were pulled out of a parked car on Oak Street southwest Atlanta.
The fifth man listed in the lawsuit, Perry, was unable to speak to the media on Tuesday.
Similar claims earlier this year led to a $200,000 settlement between two men and the city of Atlanta and the disbanding of the Red Dog unit.
The men are represented by Dan Grossman and Mark Bullman.
Grossman said none of their clients has a criminal past and the police did not find drugs on any of them.
"We hope this lawsuit will bring this practice to an end. None of these people were charged with a crime, with the exception of one man who was charged with having broken taillight," he said.
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