A D.C. man is suing two Metro cops, saying they violated his civil rights and injured him when they threw him from his wheelchair during an arrest last spring.

Dwight Harris accuses Metro Transit officers Fred Price and Dave Burpoe of grabbing him without provocation May 19 as he sat in his motorized wheelchair on U Street and smashing his face onto the concrete sidewalk, according to the suit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

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