Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'federalviolation'
June 28, 2008
An 8-year veteran of the Yonkers police department was arrested for allegedly "body-slamming" a woman at a restaurant in 2007. Wayne Simoes was arrested and charged, per the U.S. Attorney's office, "with violation of federal civil rights laws" because it's illegal to for law enforcement to use "excessive force..the course of an arrest, stop, or seizure." In March 2007, Irma Marquez's niece, who was hit with a bottle at La Fonda restaurant, was being treated......
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