GRAND RAPIDS, MI - An attorney has filed a $10 million lawsuit after being jailed following a confrontation with protesters upset by a mistrial in Patrick Lyoya’s killing by former Grand Rapids police officer Christopher Schurr.

John Timothy Klees, a Grand Rapids attorney, sued multiple defendants, including the City of Grand Rapids, Kent County, the county prosecutor, a police officer, and the magistrate, a retired judge.

He filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan after being charged with malicious destruction of property, a felony, for allegedly damaging a vehicle with an old police baton.

His trial is set for January.

The incident happened on May 8 when protesters gathered outside of the Kent County Courthouse. A judge had declared a mistrial

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