The parents of the student athlete killed by a police officer in October are suing the officer who killed their son.<\/p>\n
In the complaint filed on Wednesday, Danroy Henry, Sr.<\/strong> and Angella Henry<\/strong>, say the officer violated the civil and constitutional rights of their son, Danroy Henry Jr.<\/strong>, a Pace University football player, calling the shooting an \u201cunconscionable use of force.\u201d<\/p>\n The couple is seeking compensation for their son’s death and their suffering.<\/p>\n Officer, Aaron Hess<\/strong>, who was responsible for the shooting, was cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury in February.<\/p>\n Hess <\/strong>was named Officer of the Year by the Pleasantville Police Department for his \u201cdignity and professionalism\u201d since the shooting and throughout his career.<\/p>\n Hess<\/strong> shot Henry<\/strong> through the windshield of Henry’s<\/strong> car Oct. 17 as the 20-year-old drove away from a disturbance that spilled out of a bar in Thornwood, N.Y., after the Pace University homecoming game.<\/p>\n Hess<\/strong> has said he was hit by the car, thrown onto the hood and had no choice but to fire to stop the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The parents of the student athlete killed by a police officer in October are suing the officer who killed their son. In the complaint filed on Wednesday, Danroy Henry, Sr. and Angella Henry, say the officer violated the civil and constitutional rights of their son, Danroy Henry Jr., a Pace University football player, calling the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}