| NYC Will Not Represent NYPD
Officer Who Chased and Crashed
into Quad-Style Motorbike
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
June 15 – A Bronx man who was
riding a "quad-style
motorbike" when an NYPD patrol
car chased him without siren
on, he says, and crashed into
the bike causing injuries sued
the police officers and the
City. He filed
notice of claim and then a
lawsuit under 42 USC 1983.
On June 15
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Lewis J. Liman held a
proceeding in the case. Inner
City Press covered it.
The City's
lawyer said she is
representing all of the named
defendants except one: the
officer who was driving the
police car. She said the City
wrote to the officer in May -
"by first class mail" - and
also informed his union rep.
Judge
Liman told the plaintiff's
lawyer to file for a
certificate of default against
the officer by June 22.
Press
emails to NYPD's DPCI have
gone unreturned.
The case is
Valdez v. The City of New
York, et al., 1:25-cv-7610
(Liman)
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