New York Man Receives $3 Million in Damages Seven Years After Police Brutality Incident

NEW YORK, Sept. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A recent verdict out of New York  involving the case of Herminio Pizarro, a former correction officer,  against the NYPD and the City of New York pushed Civil Rights and Police Brutality claims into the spotlight.  the On July 31, 2014 a Bronx jury granted Pizarro a total of $3 million (including $1 million in punitive damages) as a result of a 2007 assault by a group of NYPD police officers at the 40th Precinct stationhouse on August 7, 2007. According to sources, the incident transpired following a confrontation at a street fair when Mr. Pizarro was allegedly dragged into the stationhouse bathroom by two cops and then kicked and punched by five other officers who were waiting in the bathroom. As a result Pizarro claimed to suffer two neck injuries requiring surgery and lost his construction job following the attack.

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