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The woman who was with Winston Smith on June 3 when law enforcement killed him during an attempted arrest at a Minneapolis parking ramp is taking legal action.

Attorneys for Norhan Askar filed a lawsuit in Hennepin County District Court against the Hennepin and Ramsey county sheriff’s offices. The attorneys filed a separate $15 million federal tort complaint against the U.S. Marshals Service that led the task force whose officers fatally shot Smith.

The lawsuit alleges Askar and Smith were leaving a lunch date on June 3 in Uptown when two plainclothes deputies shot into their parked car. Askar’s attorneys say she was hurt from flying glass and suffers emotionally from what she experienced. The lawsuit says Askar never acted suspiciously or violently during the entire encounter with police and was never warned about what was happening.

Earlier in July, Askar through her attorneys said 

officers did not identify themselves as authorities

 when they surrounded Smith’s car with guns drawn. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension said in June that 

it would not release the sheriff’s deputies’ names

 and are unaware of any surveillance video. Local sheriffs have 

ended their work with the U.S. Marshals task force

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the court in which the lawsuit was filed. The above copy is updated.

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