68-year-old woman sues Des Peres police officers who she says beat her

A 68-year-old woman is suing the City of Des Peres and four of the city's police officers after she said she and her son were brutalized and beaten at a Sam's Club store on March 23. Marvia Gray said she and her son were trying to return a television they had purchased earlier the same day when they were falsely accused of stealing it. She said officers used excessive force to arrest her and her adult son while they were trying to return the television. "Just throwing me to the floor," Gray said, during a virtual press conference on Monday. "Just took me by my purse and just slammed me to the floor like I was some kind of nothing. And them I'm like 'Watch it, watch it...you guys are hurting me. What is going on?'" Gray said she feared for her son's life as she watched multiple officers detain him. "I'm looking at these police just beating him and kicking him and all of this, and I said 'They're going to kill him. They're going to kill him'," Gray said. "I could see my son dying before my eyes." Gray is being represented by Action Injury Law Group, a national civil rights law firm based in Chicago, as well as co-counsel William E. Dailey Jr. of the Dailey Law Firm. "If you can just picture returning a television," Dailey said. "You're trying to speak with whoever is necessary to initiate that process and in the next instance, you're being forceully approached with handcuffs and with force." The lawsuit states Marvia Gray and her son, Derek Gray, purchased multiple items from the store that day, including a 65-inch television. As is standard for big-box retailers like Sam's, Gray's lawsuit states they had to show their receipt along with their purchases before exiting the store. Upon realizing the television would not fit in their vehicle, the Grays left it at the store until they could return to pick it up. The suit states Derek Gray returned to pick up the television later in the day. When he returned, the TV was withheld from him because an employee initially thought he was trying to steal it. The lawsuit states another employee intervened to confirm Gray had purchased the television earlier in the day and he was able to leave with it.

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