According to the new federal lawsuit, the NYPD refused to look at the Ring camera footage that would have cleared the nurse.
Even though a camera was set up in her living room to show her cousin attacking her, the person who got arrested was her cousin.
She said that the officers' refusal to watch the video put her through the criminal justice system for six months.
I was put in a cell. She said that she went to downtown to book that night and saw the judge the next day.
There was an attack on me in my home. My job was affected by it. "I couldn't get a job because they said I had a pending case against me." I was fired from my job as a school nurse because the agency sent me an email saying I was arrested and would be terminated if I didn't get it resolved. My entire career was at stake.
The commanding officer of the 61st Precinct was one of the NYPD officers who were sued.
The city Law Department will respond to the litigation.
The security video she set up in her Sheepshead Bay home shows her opening the front door to find her cousin standing on the other side.
The cousin was not welcome in the house because she was on her mother's side. Her mother told her that a different relative was coming to visit, so she was surprised when she showed up.
The cousin pushed through the threshold and hit the girl in the chest.
The cousin started screaming after she was hit in the face. It's time to call the police. The cousin yelled to the two women to call the police.
She went to the 61st Precinct to report her cousin to the police.
She says the cops there refused to take a complaint, and her cousin called the police to accuse her of assault, with the two other women at the scene and her own mother backing up the story.
According to the lawsuit, the police officers who responded to the call ignored the Ring camera, which was clearly visible in the living room. She said that they didn't reach out to her to get her side of the story.
Her lawyer said that was a problem. NYPD officers claim to have all this training, but they don't follow it
According to the lawsuit, on July 1st, when she went to the precinct to file a report, she was told by the officer that her complaint was a harassment case and not a crime.
When she returned to the precinct on July 4 to check on the status of her complaint, she was cuffed, she claims.
The officer who cuffed her refused to look at the camera footage on her phone.
If she was white, the police might have investigated her side of the story if they had taken her complaint seriously.
She said that her case was dismissed after prosecutors reviewed the video.
I was relieved because my career was on the line. She claimed that they tried to ruin her. I was scared. I began to get dizzy after losing a lot of weight. It's really stressed out.
What would happen if I had no video?
The NYPD wouldn't comment on the incident. They wouldn't say if any of the officers face an internal investigation for their handling of the case or if the cousin will be charged with a crime.
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