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$1 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Bushwick Police Accused of Stop-and-Frisk

Travis Simmons alleges two cops from Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct handcuffed, beaten, and arrested him without any evidence.

$1 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Bushwick Police Accused of Stop-and-Frisk

$1 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Bushwick Police Accused of Stop-and-Frisk

Travis Simmons alleges two cops from Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct handcuffed, beaten, and arrested him without any evidence.

$1 Million Lawsuit Filed Against Bushwick Police Accused of Stop-and-Frisk

Three years after the stop-and-frisk tactics employed by the New York Police Department were ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge, Travis Simmons alleges two cops from Bushwick’s 83rd Precinct handcuffed, beaten, and arrested him without any evidence he had committed a crime in August 2016. 

Simmons filed the $1 million lawsuit in Brooklyn Civil Court on August 26, 2019 and accused three NYPD officers of employing the Bloomberg-era…

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