When You’ve Been A Victim of Police Misconduct

The New York City Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices raise serious concerns over racial profiling, illegal stops and privacy rights. The Department’s own reports confirm that the police stop many law abiding New Yorkers, and the vast majority are black and Latino teenage or young adult males.

Such an experience can be psychologically life altering to an innocent person, who has done nothing wrong, and finds himself suddenly arrested and sent to prison for 48 hours or so to be arraigned. And sometimes matters go from bad to worse.

We represent a young man, a star on the high school football team, about to start college, who for no reason was randomly chased by the police at a friendly gathering of young people on a warm summer night dispersed. He did nothing wrong. When the policeman caught him, they slammed him with an upper cut body block, which threw our client into the air and he landed on his head. He was in a coma and suffered a permanent brain injury.