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Thursday, September 04, 2014 5:26:23 PM
Can Even a Supreme Court Judge Get Justice against NYPD Police Brutality?
A Queens County Supreme Court Judge is claiming in Federal Court that New York City police crushed his larynx in an attack, and later tried to cover it up. Judge Thomas D. Raffaele, 70, at least has the clout and position to ensure the police’s misdeeds won’t be buried. He is claiming $300,000 is due him for the attack on June 1, 2012 in Jackson Heights.
The incident regarded a homeless man who though handcuffed was being attacked by police, while a crowd of onlookers pressed up and recorded the incident with cell phones. “I beg you please stop, I beg you please stop,” the homeless man said ineffectually. Moved by compassion and his sense of authority, the judge called to the police and urged the crowd to back off. At this point an unknown officer “charged up” shoved him and “using a karate chop-like” attack, hit him on the neck, as Raffaele said in the complaint, as as Courthouse News Service reported.
Checking into a hospital later, the judge discovered that he had a crushed larynx.
- See more at: http://www.jdjournal.com/2013/08/20/can-even-a-supreme-court-judge-get-justice-against-nypd-police-brutality/#sthash.cgv610Pg.dpuf
A Queens County Supreme Court Judge is claiming in Federal Court that New York City police crushed his larynx in an attack, and later tried to cover it up. Judge Thomas D. Raffaele, 70, at least has the clout and position to ensure the police’s misdeeds won’t be buried. He is claiming $300,000 is due him for the attack on June 1, 2012 in Jackson Heights.
The incident regarded a homeless man who though handcuffed was being attacked by police, while a crowd of onlookers pressed up and recorded the incident with cell phones. “I beg you please stop, I beg you please stop,” the homeless man said ineffectually. Moved by compassion and his sense of authority, the judge called to the police and urged the crowd to back off. At this point an unknown officer “charged up” shoved him and “using a karate chop-like” attack, hit him on the neck, as Raffaele said in the complaint, as as Courthouse News Service reported.
Checking into a hospital later, the judge discovered that he had a crushed larynx.
- See more at: http://www.jdjournal.com/2013/08/20/can-even-a-supreme-court-judge-get-justice-against-nypd-police-brutality/#sthash.cgv610Pg.dpuf
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