The lawsuit alleged that Montemayor was shot in the testicle with a projectile that caused it to swell to the size of a “grapefruit” and explode.

Doctors had to piece his testicle together after he was rushed to a hospital.

The defendants in the lawsuit include LAPD Chief Michel Moore.

The lawsuit alleged that Montemayor was attacked by two officers who shoved him backward and ripped a sign he was holding that called for defunding the LAPD.

Before he was attacked, Montemayor didn’t hear a dispersal order but was heading in the direction he believed the police wanted protestors to go.

“As Mr. Montemayor stood there, unarmed, not resisting arrest, posing no threat whatsoever to anyone around him, and having just been violently shoved, a third officer less than ten feet away aimed his green [40-millimeter] launcher at Mr. Montemayor and intentionally shot him in the groin with a high-speed plastic, hard foam projectile,” the lawsuit read, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Montemayor’s legal claim also challenges a recent finding by the department’s Use of Force Review Board which stated that the officer who shot the twenty-nine-year-old was in policy, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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