BROOKLYN, NY — The cops who shot 16-year-old Brooklyn teen Kimani Gray have been accused of civil rights violations in federal lawsuits.

Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova racked up five such charges prior to their fatal confrontation with Gray on March 9. Mourad has been sued three times while working as a plainclothes officer in Staten Island, while Cordova was slapped twice while working in Brooklyn’s 70th Precinct.

Costing the city $215,000 in court settlements, the combined cases, save for one, were all dismissed and later sealed.  Attorney Brett Klein, a lawyer who filed four of the five lawsuits against the two, explains both Mourad and Cordova were accused of exploiting the controversial “stop-and-frisk” tactic and going outside the confines of the law to hide their involvement.