Good Samaritan Gets $80,000 for Her Lawyer
Good Samaritan Gets $80,000 for Her Lawyer
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CN) - A Brooklyn woman can recoup attorneys' fees after security guards arrested her for adjusting a shirt strap that was slipping off the shoulder of a 15-year-old girl in handcuffs, a federal judge ruled.
Guards at the Starrett City development cuffed resident Annette Brown so tightly that she had to get surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome.
"Ms. Brown claimed that on the night of July 28, 2008, she heard a teenagers shouting near to where she lived, and thinking that her children could be near to the scene, she entered into the area to tell her children to go home. Once there, she saw Starrett City peace officers, including defendant Sergeant Ruppert Newman. While telling her children to go home, a fifteen year-old girl, that she knew, Diamond Medlock, was in handcuffs and held by Sgt. Newman. Medlock asked if Ms. Brown would fix her shirt that was coming down, and Ms. Brown pulled the strap of the shirt back over Medlock's shoulder, while Medlock's arms were handcuffed behind her," according to a recent brief Brown filed.
"Sgt. Newman, who had been holding Medlock, then grabbed Ms. Brown, turned her around and handcuffed her."
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