About admin An article in The Nation featured Rebecca Heinegg discussing her role as a volunteer attorney for Cop Watch patrols in New York City: Rebecca Heinegg, a criminal attorney in New York who works with victims of police brutality, explains that when a team goes out to patrol, it’s best to have an attorney on … Read more
From gothamist: An Occupy Wall Street protester who had her breast grabbed by an NYPD sergeant has won a $95,000 settlement from the city after arguing that “the police department demonstrated a pattern of sexual misconduct against female OWS activists.” Cressa Perloff was arrested on March 17th, 2012, while she stood on the sidewalk during … Read more
The Brooklyn Paper reports: Another Sunset Park resident is vindicated after prosecutors dropped charges that video of the incident proved were trumped-up. Prosecutors dismissed charges that 17-year-old Enrique Del Rosario assaulted a police officer on June 8. Cops pinched Del Rosario last summer as he filmed them arresting revelers during Puerto Rican Day festivities on … Read more
From the Brooklyn Paper: Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a Sunset Park fruit vendor who was arrested for assault and resisting arrest last fall after a cellphone video contradicted the police account, and proved that the officer who accused him couldn’t have witnessed the crimes he supposedly committed. Police arrested Jonathan Daza on Sept. … Read more
From Reuters: A former information technology employee at the defunct digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve was sentenced on Friday to three years in a U.S. prison for his role in concealing what authorities described as a massive money laundering business for criminals worldwide. Maxim Chukharev, 28, will likely serve approximately 10 months, with good behavior, … Read more
Contact: Ryan Campbell (516) 974-8236 RCampbell@DRMCapitolGroup.com NEW YORK, NY – NYC civil rights and minority groups like the Arab American Association of New York, ASHA for Women, National Lawyers Guild NYC and many others have signed on to support Chaumtoli Huq. Huq, a South Asian, Muslim mother, activist and former attorney for the NYC Public … Read more
The Daily News reports on Kunstler Law’s latest case: Seventeen activists, including comedian Randy Credico and the widow of late radical lawyer William Kunstler, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against New York City alleging they were falsely arrested for demonstrating peacefully outside a police station in Brooklyn. The group was protesting the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which … Read more
Hon. Bill de Blasio City Hall New York, NY 10007 Commissioner William J. Bratton One Police Plaza New York, NY 10038 Dear Mayor de Blasio and Commissioner Bratton: The undersigned community organizations work with communities in New York City and around the country. We are writing to express our outrage and concerns over the ongoing … Read more
News 12 reports: Sunset Park residents are showing their support for a 17-year-old girl who was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Cindy Daza was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer. Supporters say Daza was trying to protect her brother Jonathan, who is allegedly the man seen on video getting kicked by … Read more
The Daily News reports: A former top lawyer for Public Advocate Letitia James isn’t exactly advocating for the NYPD’s policing practices. In a blistering lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Manhattan Federal Court, Chaumtoli Huq, 42, says NYPD officers used “unreasonable and wholly unprovoked force” when they arrested her without cause while she was leaving a … Read more