Three high-profile civil rights attorneys, including Ben Crump, have been added to the legal team representing the family of Jawan Dallas, who contend Mobile police are responsible for the 36-year-old unarmed Black man’s death after being tased twice.

The announcement that Crump, John Burris and Lee Merritt are now attorneys for the Dallas family was made Monday by Harry Daniels, who along with attorney Roderick Van Daniel are also representing the family.

Daniels said the new additions form a “legal dream team.”

“It should be clear that this isn’t a game to us. We don’t come together like this for nothing,” Daniels said in a statement issued by his law firm.

Crump has represented several families of Black people who died in police custody, including Tyre Nichols, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

Burris was the lawyer for Rodney King’s civil case against the city of Los Angeles and represented the family of Oscar Grant, whose death at the hands of a transit officer in Oakland in 2009 was the subject of the film “Fruitvale Station.”

Merritt also represented Floyd’s family and was also a lawyer for the family of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia man who was murdered by white men while jogging.

An unnamed eyewitness claimed Dallas was 100 yards from the scene of a reported burglary earlier this month, was “startled” by police and was tased the moment he exited his vehicle.

Daniels also claimed the witness said Dallas fell to the ground after the first tasing, grabbed his chest and complained of chest pains, but “officers tased him again until he stopped moving,” according to a statement released by the law firm.

“Jawan Dallas wasn’t even near the scene but these officers decided that he was a suspect and tazed him until he died,” Daniels said. “This isn’t speculation. This is an eye-witness statement and if the Mobile Police Department wants to dispute they need to release the body cam video.

“Jawan Dallas wasn’t a threat and shouldn’t have even been a suspect. But they killed him anyway.”

Mobile police disputed the attorneys’ claims.

Chief Paul Prine said Friday that patrol officers then went out on a call of “burglary in progress.”

The 911 caller said his home was located at lot 33. Later in the call, the caller said the man started walking down the road toward lot 27. The officers immediately went to lot 27, police said. Between lots 27 and 28, they met two individuals. One was Dallas, who was seated in a car, according to police.

“One of the individuals complied with the officers and gave the officers his identification card,” Prine said on Friday. “The second individual was identified as Jawan Dallas, who was sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle. The officers inquired several times for Mr. Dallas’s identification card. He continued to evade the question, did not give the identification card to the officers.”

Officers were concerned for their safety, police said, due to Dallas’s “strange movement in the car.”

“He was moving to the backseat with his hands, he was reaching under the vehicle, and these are cause for concern for safety matters of the officers,” Prine said.

Prine said Dallas was later found to have drugs — crystal methamphetamine and analog marijuana, also known as spice.

“We’re not here to disparage Mr. Dallas, but I do think it’s important to know. It may give some indication as to why he certainly attempted to flee and fight,” Prine said. “But he is a convicted felon. And I think it’s important to note, at the time, Mr. Dallas had two active probation revocation warrants for his arrest.”

Also on Monday, Bishop William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign and a former minister at Greenleaf Christian Church in North Carolina, voiced his support for the Dallas family.

“Whether it’s manufacturing a narrative that tried to blame Jawan Dallas for his own death or waiting until July 4th to release it when no one was watching, the Mobile Police Department has done everything in its power to hide the simple truth that their officers tased an innocent bystander to death,” Barber said in a statement. “But I believe in the truth and I’m proud to join the Dallas family, their attorneys and the people of Mobile, Alabama, as they fight to bring that truth into the sunlight.”