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Arrested By NYPD Covering Protest Pursue
Failure to Train Claim in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 14 – Journalist Michael
Nigro was arrested while
covering a demonstration in
New York City on March 19,
2016. He sued.
On January
14, U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Jesse M. Furman
held a proceeding. Inner City
Press covered it.
The case was
filed in March 2019. Judge
Furman said the parts of it
that remain about about
"failure to train." 2020 WL
5503539.
The
complaint states that "this
false arrest would never have
occurred but for the decision
made by the City of New York
to not properly train NYPD
officers on the First
Amendment rights of
media."
Now motions
are due by February 15, and
depositions by September 10.
Inner City Press,
with its own journalistic experience
with untrained / unlawful
security in New York City
(albeit in international
territory) hopes to cover this
case more closely.
The case is Nigro
v. City Of New York et al.,
19-cv-2369 (Furman)
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