| Bronx Man Sued City For
Boston Road Police Stop in 2015 Now SDNY Trial
Moves Into 2021
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 17– Hafeez Shaheed
was driving on Boston Road in
The Bronx on December 12, 2015
when he was pulled over by
police.
He was ordered
out of his car, was tightly
handcuffed and taken into
detention in the 47th Police
Precinct. He was denied
medical treatment. The
criminal court summons filed
against him was dismissed and
sealed on February 10,
2016.
In 2017,
Hafeez Saheed sued the City of
New York and the police
officers.
On May 5, 2020,
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Katherine Polk Failla in
a public telephone conference
which Inner City Press covered
as it does others asked Hafeez
Shaheed if he would be willing
to settle for less than
$100,000.
Yes, he
said.
Judge
Failla asked, Less than
$50,000?
Hafeez Saheed said No.
Melissa Wachs of the NYC Law
Department, representing the
City and Officers Kevin Kenny,
Ou Wu and William Nakelski,
said she did not have
authority to go above or to
$50,000.
And so a
tentative jury trial date of
December 7, 2020 was set.
Judge Failla genially said she
has already had to postpone a
June jury trial, so even
December is not entirely sure.
Now in
November 2020, another
conference was held in the
case, and Inner City Press
again covered it. Since May
another conference was
adjourned; the plaintiff's
motion to file an amended
complaint was denied. In
August the trial was adjourned
sine die. Now the talk is of
May, June or July 2021. On
November 17 it was said, see
you in January.
This case
is Saheed v. City of New York,
et al., 17-cv-1813
(Failla).
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