{"id":111,"date":"2015-02-16T21:48:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/?p=111"},"modified":"2020-02-27T22:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T22:52:49","slug":"cop-bash-charges-dropped-as-sunset-park-vendor-proves-nypd-prosecutors-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/2015\/02\/16\/cop-bash-charges-dropped-as-sunset-park-vendor-proves-nypd-prosecutors-lied\/","title":{"rendered":"Cop-bash charges dropped as Sunset Park vendor proves NYPD, prosecutors lied"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/38\/8\/br-sunset-park-vendor-charges-dropped-2015-02-20-bk_38_8.html\">Brooklyn Paper<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\nProsecutors have dropped the charges against a Sunset Park fruit vendor \nwho was arrested for assault and resisting arrest last fall after a \ncellphone video contradicted the police account, and proved that the \nofficer who accused him couldn\u2019t have witnessed the crimes he supposedly\n committed.<\/p><p>Police arrested Jonathan Daza on Sept. 14 following a dustup over his\n failure to move his fruit-stand once a street fair permit expired.<\/p><p>But a bystander\u2019s cellphone video shows officer Vincent Ciardiello \nkicking Daza in the back while Daza was on the ground and restrained by \nother officers. The video got the officer into hot water with the \ndepartment and helped exonerate Daza and two family members who were \nalso arrested, the family\u2019s attorney said.<\/p><p>\u201cIn November, the [assistant district attorney] on the case put in an\n affirmation swearing on facts that clearly hadn\u2019t happened, because \nthere\u2019s a video of the thing,\u201d said Rebecca Heinegg, who represented \nDaza and his two sisters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/38\/8\/br-sunset-park-vendor-charges-dropped-2015-02-20-bk_38_8.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Brooklyn Paper: Prosecutors have dropped the charges against a Sunset Park fruit vendor who was arrested for assault&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunstlerlaw.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}