Named in 2 known lawsuits, $30,000 total settlements.
Downes, Bernard vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 153155/2023,
Supreme Court - New York, April 6, 2023
Complaint
Description: On January 22, 2022, at approximately 7:00 p.m., in the vicinity of the intersection of 145th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, New York, New York, in which Defendant Officers, Crystal Rivera, Barbara Morales and Marcin Paluchowski, acting under color of state law, caused Plaintiff, Bernard Downes to be unlawfully stopped, questioned, searched, detained and arrested without reasonable suspicion or probable cause. Defendants illegally approached Plaintiff with outstretched limbs immediately before forcefully grabbing and holding Plaintiff’s arms and body. Defendants illegally searched and violently contorted Plaintiff’s arms behind his back prior to rear handcuffing Plaintiff in an excessively tight and painful ma...
John, Joseph vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 13CV03890,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, June 25, 2013, ended July 7, 2014
$30,000 Settlement