A Seattle police detective who shot a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle club in Sturgis, S.D., in 2008 has filed a lawsuit against the city of Seattle and the Seattle Police Department, alleging the department disparaged him and negligently provided false information that led to his indictment on a perjury charge.

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The suit, filed Monday, stems from an incident during the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in which Ronald Smith said he shot and wounded a Hells Angel in self-defense during a bar fight on Aug. 9, 2008. Smith, who was in Sturgis with members of the Iron Pigs, a motorcycle club composed of law-enforcement officers and firefighters, was charged in Meade County, S.D., Circuit Court with the felonies of aggravated assault and perjury. He also was charged with a misdemeanor count of carrying a concealed weapon without a permit. Prosecutors alleged Smith perjured himself when he claimed he had used a personal firearm, when records obtained from the Seattle Police Department revealed the gun had been issued by the department. But the perjury charge was dismissed less than a month after the incident after Seattle police discovered the gun Smith used was not a department-issued gun, but was one he bought from the Seattle Police Athletic Association in 1996. Prosecutors in South Dakota later dismissed the assault and concealed-weapon charges, saying that it appeared Smith had been the victim of a premeditated attack and that federal law allows off-duty law-enforcement officers to carry weapons anywhere they choose.

Cop that shot Hells Angel in Sturgis sues Seattle PD.

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