The lawsuit claims that Magill was negligent, as were hospital officials who treated English for a head injury shortly before his death.
Magill, city officials and hospital officials could not be reached for comment late Tuesday.
English, 20, died July 17 after police say he escaped from a police cruiser while handcuffed and jumped off the Salem Avenue bridge.
Police provided audio- and video-recordings of English breaking out the rear window of a cruiser with his head, rolling out the window and jumping over the bridge railing, plus a minute-by-minute narrative of events.
The information was greeted with skepticism by some in the community, and the city requested the FBI investigate the death.
That investigation was forwarded to the Justice Department for review. To date, the results of that investigation have not been released.
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