Posted on 08/12/2013 4:45:37 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
Corona resident Cecilia Reyes, whose 22-year-old son Noel Polanco was fatally shot by an NYPD detective during a traffic stop last year, filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against New York City and the officer who gunned down the National Guardsman, according to court documents.
A member of the NYPD Emergency Service Unit Apprehension Team, Hassan Hamdy was one of several officers in two unmarked vans driving in the center lane eastbound on the Grand Central Parkway Oct. 4 at 5:15 a.m. when Polanco was seen in his black 2012 Honda Fit Hybrid near Exit 7 in East Elmhurst, the NYPD said.
Officers said they saw Polanco driving erratically in the right lane, cutting between the vans, tailgating another vehicle in the left lane, then cutting back in-between the vans to the right lane, police said.
Philip Karasyk, the attorney for Hamdy, said that after Polanco was pulled over, Hamdy saw Polanco reaching for something and shot him in the stomach, believing it to be a weapon.
No weapon was found in the car, District Attorney Richard Brown said.
One of the two passengers in the car, Diane DeFerrari, said Polanco kept his hands on the steering wheel.
The other passenger, off-duty Officer Vanessa Rodriguez, was sleeping at the time.
Polanco died shortly after being shot at New York Hospital Queens in Flushing......
In February, a Queens grand jury decided against formally charging Hamdy.
The wrongful death lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday seeks damages in excess of $75,000 as a judgment for assault and battery in the shooting of Polanco.
Sanford Rubenstein, lawyer for the Polanco family, said in a statement the family believes they did not get justice on the criminal side of the justice system, and are moving forward with the federal lawsuit.
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Cops should stick to their primary mission: raising revenue for the welfare state from innocent civilians attempting to legally go about their day.
***No weapon was found in the car, District Attorney Richard Brown said. ***
The NYPD must be slipping! In the past officers carried a cheap $12.00 Saturday night special drop gun just for such occasions!
I FULLY support the Right to sue the perp's, BUT, Ambulance-Chasers KNOW that Taxpayers are good for lining their pockets with MILLIONS in Litigation Lotto payouts.Those two cops should lose EVERYTHING they own, have ALL their savings taken, AND, pay the rest for the remainder of their lives THEMSELVES.
When it happened:
Unarmed Army reservist shot dead by NYPD cop while reaching for drill at traffic stop
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2941452/posts
There was an off duty passenger in the same vehicle who was asleep through all this?
The officer riding in Mr Polanco’s car, 29-year-old Vanessa Rodriguez, was waving her police ID out the window just before the shooting, sources said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2941452/posts
Muslim shoots hispanic minority? Where is the screaming demand for a trial of Hamdy?
It went to a Grand Jury back in February but they no billed it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/charged-slay-article-1.1264384
$75,000+
Getting-off easy.
More and more it is approaching SOP that if there is a reason to stop someone that person should be shot. It is already entirely legal for a LEO to kill anyone at all in any circumstance so long as he afterwards says the Words of Absolution,”I felt threatened.” Those words instantly transform him into a hero and he is rewarded for his act with a paid vacation.
Apparently she awoke before the shooting.
No no,
Speeding criminals who all should clearly be shot.
Went and read the article.
The writing is very odd.
I can’t tell why the police were after him except for some hint they had “a terrifying chase”. Of whom I’m not sure.
The guy was dangerously weaving in and out of traffic and the off duty LEO chick was asleep during this?
She was awake during this guy’s supposed erratic driving and didn’t tell him to stop?
What was her story? Did it jive with the on duty cops?
The questions the questions the questions....
Another reason not to visit the “Big Wienie”.
That HAS to be a typo.
That wouldn’t have stopped Angel Corey....
Has to be. Add some zeros...
It went to a Grand Jury back in February but they no billed it.
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A Grand Jury ONLY hears whatever the DA/Prosecutor allows them to hear and is not permitted to hear from the other side.
I was subpoened to give testimony before a Federal Grand Jury in a case against my company, as I was a member of management. The Fed Prosecutor and three of his cohorts fired questions at me for an hour and all were designed to try to prove my employer had done something wrong. ...End result was that the GJ did not agree with the Feds.
...sssuuuuuuurrrreee she was....
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