E-NEWSLETTER: June 2017

Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice

The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.

RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased

$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant

$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse

$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant

Ronald Lanier, Retired African-American Nassau County Correction Officer, Hits Village of Garden City with Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit
Garden City Police Department Sued for Violating His Constitutional Rights and Racial Profiling

On June 1, retired Correction Officer Ronald Lanier, who is an African-American man and a twenty-two-and-a-half-year veteran of the Nassau County Sheriff’s Department, announced the filing of his federal civil rights suit against the Village of Garden City, the Garden City Police Department and several of its officers.

Mr. Lanier was shopping in the Western Beef Supermarket on November 30, 2016, in Mineola, New York, just blocks away from his home. As he shopped, he was attacked from behind by two Garden City police officers, George Byrd and John Russell, who cursed him, beat him, threw him to the ground and cuffed him while verbally abusing him. All this occurred because Mr. Lanier was profiled based on the color of his skin.

Since the police were allegedly looking for a black man, they grabbed the first black man they saw in the store. The officers would not listen to Mr. Lanier’s pleas and his attempts to identify himself. Mr. Lanier was further abused and humiliated by the officers as he was “perp walked” through the store in handcuffs and then held in the back of a police car where he was verbally abused further.

After some time in cuffs, he was unceremoniously released with no apology and no explanation. After trying to have Garden City take responsibility for its wrongful actions, conduct of its officers and obvious racial profiling of Mr. Lanier, he has been left with no alternative but to sue to vindicate his rights and seek justice.

To read the compliant filed, click here.

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