Former NFL player Wesley Leasy and his daughter are seeking $2 million after police mistakenly detained them at gunpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport earlier in April.

Leasy, a linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995 and 1996, filed two notices of claim last week for $1 million in damages against the cities of Mesa and Phoenix; Mesa and Phoenix’s police departments; the Phoenix Aviation Department; and the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

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The lawsuit alleges that on April 10, police pointed their guns at Leasy and then handcuffed him while he was picking up his 26-year-old daughter from the airport. Police mistook Leasy's white Mercedes for a car thought to belong to the suspect of a

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