Ben Crump, an attorney known for taking on national civil rights cases, filed a petition, alleging that the NYPD was responsible for the death of a Bronx woman over the summer inside a cell at the 41st Precinct.<\/p>\n
The family told News 12 that the teenager was on her way home from a Fourth of July cookout at Crotona Park, when she got into a fight with her girlfriend and was arrested for disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n
At first, police said that Cheatham became unresponsive while inside of a cell at the 41st Precinct in Longwood and died by suicide – then later said it was a medical emergency.<\/p>\n
The medical examiner ruled the teen\u2019s death to be a suicide.<\/p>\n
Her family says officers ignored clear warnings that she was in crisis, leaving major questions about the department\u2019s handling of her detention.<\/p>\n
The petition, filed on Nov. 14, alleges the department violated her civil rights and caused her death while she was unlawfully held at the precinct, and it includes a request for an order to show cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Crump, an attorney known for taking on national civil rights cases, filed a petition, alleging that the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,1840,9,24,63,103,3616,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-41387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-death","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-petition","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\/41387","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=41387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}