| Man Sued NYPD Officers for
Violent Arrest in 2016 Now Video
Sideways at Trial
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 9 – For a violent arrest
on Eighth Avenue near 14th
Street back on March 20, 2016,
two NYPD officers were sued.
On April 9, 2025
- more than nine years after
the arrest - a civil jury was
shown video of the incident in
a trial before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Jennifer L. Rochon. Inner City
Press was there, the only
media in the
courtroom.
The
defendant on the stand
described the plaintiff as
large and hard to subdue; he
said that a loose handcuff
could be dangerous. When the
defense tried to show video
from the arrest at the
precinct it was on its side.
Plaintiff's counsel said he'd
lend his laptop but it had
privileged material on it, in
preparation of closing. He
offered to share it the next
day. Trial was adjourned for
the day.
The case is
Banyan v. Sikorski, et al.,
1:17-cv-4942 (Rochon)
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