New York: “The family of a teen who was shot and killed by an undercover cop last year — after the youth put a BB gun to the head of the officer’s partner — filed a $5 million wrongful-death suit against the city yesterday.” Police say Allen Newsome, 17, had robbed several restaurant deliverymen in Harlem when he got caught in a January 2003 sting operation in which an undercover cop posed as a delivery worker. As the teen held a gun to the officer’s head, “a second officer — the cop’s partner — shot Newsome three times.” Now his mother is suing, saying cops took too long to summon medical help. (Carl Campanile, “Kin of Slain ‘Thief’ Sue City”, New York Post, Aug. 10)(via NY Civic “Quotidian“).
“Kin of slain ‘thief’ sue city”
New York: “The family of a teen who was shot and killed by an undercover cop last year — after the youth put a BB gun to the head of the officer’s partner — filed a $5 million wrongful-death suit against the city yesterday.” Police say Allen Newsome, 17, had robbed several restaurant deliverymen in […]
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