WARREN, Michigan - December 17. 2009 - An unarmed and exhausted Robert Mitchell was facing at least six Warren and Detroit police officers inside an abandoned house when an officer fired the Taser shock from which the 16-year-old never recovered, a Detroit attorney said Wednesday.

One of the officers grabbed Mitchell by the wrists moments before the Taser jolt and let go of the one wrist he was still holding so the officer could fire the Taser at Mitchell, attorney William Goodman said.

Goodman said he will seek to amend a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in May on behalf of Mitchell's family - adding details and counts of use of excessive force by specific officers based on police officers' reports about the April 10 incident.

"It's clear to us that the use of a Taser was excessive force," said Goodman. "They could have readily subdued him. There is nothing in the statements of any of these officers that suggest there was a need to Taser that kid."

Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer has defended his officers’ actions and said in June that an internal investigation exonerated the officer who fired the Taser. Jami Leach, the Detroit attorney defending the city in the federal lawsuit, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Mitchell, a Detroit Kettering High School sophomore, died in the abandoned home on Pelkey in Detroit following a foot chase. He had fled from the car in which he was a passenger that Warren police stopped near Eight Mile and Schoenherr.

Ed. Note: Another of our brethren murdered by vicious, unprincipled, Amerikan Gestapo thugs! When is enough, enough? Revolution Now! Independence Forever!