A Brooklyn man is now suing the city and the NYPD for $100 Million after cellphone video of a violent arrest went viral. <\/p>\n
The video from April 14 appeared to show two officers punching and kicking Timothy Brown inside a liquor store in Boerum Hill. <\/p>\n
Brown, who hobbled into a news conference with a cane, and his attorneys filed a notice of claim on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said, \u2018You\u2019re under arrest,\u2019\u201d said Brown. \u201cI said, \u2018Why? I haven\u2019t done anything.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
After the video emerged, police confirmed that Brown was the wrong guy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never resisted arrest, not at all,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn DA\u2019s Office dismissed Brown\u2019s charges.<\/p>\n
Brown said he was just buying a bottle of wine after working as a home health aide.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt humiliated, disrespected, embarrassed, and I was brutally beaten for no reason,\u201d Brown said. <\/p>\n
As News 12 previously reported, the NYPD said they were already taking steps to address the situation – which is under a 90-day review. <\/p>\n
The department also disbanded the entire narcotics module associated with the incident. Both officers and a sergeant are on modified duty.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to see these bad apples removed from the force,\u201d said Derek Sells, Brown\u2019s attorney. <\/p>\n
Sells said they want changes to NYPD policies, including body cameras – which police confirmed the officers seen in the viral video should have been wearing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should be required to wear these body-worn cameras at all times,\u201d said Sells. <\/p>\n
Brown said that he now fears for his life, is unable to work and suffers from emotional distress. He added that he\u2019s suffering from several injuries, including to his head and right leg.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to me should not happen to anyone else,\u201d said Brown. \u201cIt was wrong and it was disgusting – and my life will never be the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brown\u2019s family was asked if they had heard directly from the Mamdani administration or NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, to which the family replied \u2018no\u2019 and said they\u2019re \u2018disgusted by it.\u2019<\/p>\n
Mamdani and Tisch previously called the incident \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d – but both the mayor\u2019s office and NYPD declined to comment further on Tuesday, citing the pending litigation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man is now suing the city and the NYPD for $100 Million after cellphone video of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-213213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}