| Man Arrested After Beef With
Starbucks Barrista in Tuckahoe Sues in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 18 – A 33-year old man
from California who was
arrested by police in
Tuckahoe, New York after a
verbal disagreement with
employees in a Starbuck there
over a coffee order has sued
Tuckahoe for Constitutional
violations.
The complaint,
filed on Martin Luther King's
Day in the U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York, says that TPD
officers Peter Costa and
Lieutenant Lawrence Rotta
first ordered Richard Seemer
to step out of the Starbucks -
then surrounded and
intimidated him.
Seemed
"retreated in the direction of
his mother's house" but the
TPD officers followed him
"threatening to shoot or tase
him in the back."
He was arrested,
but the charges were dropped.
So he has sued.
The case is
Seemer v. Village of Tuckahoe,
et al., 21-cv-419 (Unassigned)
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