More people are coming forward saying they have had their lives turned upside down by the Little Rock Police Department's use of no-knock warrants.

More people are coming forward saying they have had their lives turned upside down by the Little Rock Police Department. They may seek to join a lawsuit against the way police here use so-called no-knock warrants.

“I got up out of my bed and the next thing I know I heard gunshots and they shot me through the wall, hitting me three times,” said Lloyd St. Clair, who said a Little Rock officer shot him during a raid on his property in Sept. 2016. “I talked with one lawyer and he said there wasn't much he could do, so this [case] came up and so I called him.”

St. Clair refers to civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who is working with Mike Laux in suing the city on behalf of Roderick Talley. The two predicted a story like St. Clair’s would surface as more people heard Talley’s story of questionable controversial informants, no-knock warrants and explosive entries into homes.

“They destroyed my home. I was evicted. It's ruined my life,” said Charles Shelley, who claimed police called him at work in Nov. 2016 demanding that he turn someone in to them. “I'm constantly looking over my shoulder.”

Shelley’s allegations match at least six other people who came forward Tuesday. Police stormed in expecting to find large quantities of drugs, but in some cases, all they found was small amounts of marijuana.

“Just imagine if everyone who smoked marijuana in Little Rock, they were allowed to come and blow their door off,” said Crump, who rose to prominence representing the family of Trayvon Martin, who died in an altercation with a Florida neighborhood watch patrolman.

It all started with Talley, who produced home surveillance video that appears to show a confidential informant knocking on his door but getting no answer. Sometime later, narcotics officers blew that door open. They found traces of marijuana, but all charges were eventually dropped.

Earlier this month, Talley ran off from Cross County deputies when they took him into custody after he was late for an unrelated court hearing. His lawyers call it a mistake made out of fear and blame a law enforcement brotherhood for trumping up the charges.

“The evidence that I showed, it was substantial on its own,” Talley said. “It showed that they have the disrespect and the ill-will to go forward with doing this to other people.”

Little Rock Mayor-elect Frank Scott Jr. has been supportive of the case, joining the lawyers in calling for a department of justice investigation and an improved civilian review board in the city. It will hang over the search for a new police chief, but Laux thinks putting a new man or woman in charge won't fix the problem.

“This is a chronic problem that is part of the institution,” he said. “It's a problem with the boat, no matter who the particular captain is.”