| Malik McNeil Claimed False
Arrest in White Plains in 2017 Now Gets
Visiting Judge Walter in 2020
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 4 – Malik McNeil says he
was subject to false arrest
and excessive force by the
White Plains Police Department
on March 5, 2017. He filed
suit in May 2017 in the White
Plains division of the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
But
things did not go as planned.
The case was assigned to SDNY
Judge Kenneth M. Karas, and
thence to Magistrate Judge
Paul E. Davison. A trial was
set for, after adjournments,
November 12, 2019.
But McNeil's lawyer
Duncan Peterson citing a trial
before SDNY Judge Buchman on
that day, also said he was
booked a vacation to
Antarctica at that time. So a
February 2020 date was set,
before SDNY Visiting Judge
(from the Western District of
Louisiana) Donald E. Walter.
Inner City Press went to the
open arguments and heard how
Malik McNeil was only trying
to break up a fight, but got
arrested and humiliated. His
lawyer told the jury that
McNeil turned to drink,
putting his work for a degree
at Mercy College at risk.
Damages are being sought. The
case is McNeil v. Police
Officer Cole-Hatchard,
17-cv-3199 (Walter).
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