Man Claims NYPD Set Him Up With Planted Gun
By Josh Saul. A Brooklyn man who says he was falsely arrested by police who planted a gun on him is suing the city and the NYPD.
Jeffery Herring, 53, was cleared last week on the weapons rap when prosecutors failed to produce a confidential police informant, despite a judge’s order that the witness be brought to court.
“Despite Mr. Herring’s innocence, the defendants fabricated and falsified evidence to have him arrested and prosecuted,” states the lawsuit, which was being filed in Brooklyn federal court Monday by lawyer Joseph Indusi.
Herring’s suit also levels a new allegation against the officers — it claims they pocketed the $1,000 reward that would have gone to a confidential informant for leading them to the gun arrests.
“The individually named defendants were abusing the ‘Operation Gun Stop’ program to enrich themselves at the expense of violating plaintiff’s constitutional rights,” the suit claims. (Read more about the man claiming NYPD set him up with a planted gun HERE)
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Invoking King’s Memory, de Blasio, Sharpton Try to Mend Fences With NYPD
By Maria Alvarez. Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Rev. Al Sharpton embraced after giving heartfelt speeches that promised their commitment to social justice while respecting the NYPD as they vowed to mend fences between police and the community.
The two men were with a dozen elected officials who spoke to several hundred National Action Network members and supporters at Sharpton’s House of Justice in Harlem, where they noted the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“We are not anti-police. We respect the police who put their lives on the line for us,” said Sharpton, whose organization hired five tour buses to bring supporters to Brooklyn to lay wreaths where slain officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were shot and killed Dec. 20 while sitting in their police cruiser. (Read more from this story HERE)
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