"New York City police officers claimed they were trying to "avoid the collision" when an unmarked NYPD patrol car swerved from a middle lane into a bicycle lane in 2023, crashing head-on with a Black man on a scooter sending him reeling into the air and headfirst into the windshield, leaving him unconscious on the street. But surveillance video proved the cops to be liars."
"The lawsuit states that the cops who struck Davis were part of the department's "Community Response Team" which is made up of dirty cops, described in the claim as a "secretive unit of plainclothes officers whose history of misconduct has been well-documented." The lawsuit also accuses the NYPD of implementing a policy encouraging officers to use their patrol cars as weapons, even for low-level traffic infractions."
"In Davis' case, he was riding the scooter on a public street to a store to get his cellphone repaired when he noticed he was being followed by a car that turned out to be an unmarked police car even though he did not know that at the time. He drove a short distance past the store before turning around and driving back to the store in the bicycle lane. Meanwhile, the unmarked patrol car that had been following him driven by NYPD Officer Nikolaos Liandrakis spotted Davis in the bicycle lane and swerved his car into its path, striking it head on."
Delonny Davis, 40, filed a federal lawsuit against the NYPD alleging excessive force, malicious prosecution, denial of a fair trial, failure to intervene, and negligence after being struck by an unmarked patrol car in 2023. Surveillance video contradicted officers' claims that they were trying to "avoid the collision." The suit identifies the officers as members of the Community Response Team and describes that unit as a secretive plainclothes group with a documented history of misconduct. The complaint also accuses the NYPD of a policy that encourages using patrol cars as weapons for low-level infractions.
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