Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The NYPD has been hit with a federal lawsuit by a Brooklyn family that claims cops bullied a diabetic teen who was denied insulin while falsely locked up on attempted murder charges.
Richard Gonzalez’s family said the only evidence cops had to tie the 14-year-old special-ed student to an April shooting at Foot Locker in Bushwick were eyewitnesses who told them the gunman was named “Richie.”
When police got the frightened boy alone in a men’s room at the 83rd Precinct, “with balled fists” they “tried to manipulate him into confessing,” the family’s lawyer Carmen Giordano wrote in court papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.
“You going down,” one of them said, according to the lawsuit.
“I was scared,” Gonzalez told The Daily News on Friday.
His condition is so serious that he wears an electronic pump programmed to administer doses of insulin every hour, the lawsuit says.
But Giordano said police removed the pump and threatened to throw the boy’s mom, Divian Ramos, out of the stationhouse when she objected to them questioning her son without Ramos present.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...d-diabetic-boy-insulin-suit-article-1.1888838
Atrocious
Richard Gonzalez’s family said the only evidence cops had to tie the 14-year-old special-ed student to an April shooting at Foot Locker in Bushwick were eyewitnesses who told them the gunman was named “Richie.”
When police got the frightened boy alone in a men’s room at the 83rd Precinct, “with balled fists” they “tried to manipulate him into confessing,” the family’s lawyer Carmen Giordano wrote in court papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.
“You going down,” one of them said, according to the lawsuit.
“I was scared,” Gonzalez told The Daily News on Friday.
His condition is so serious that he wears an electronic pump programmed to administer doses of insulin every hour, the lawsuit says.
But Giordano said police removed the pump and threatened to throw the boy’s mom, Divian Ramos, out of the stationhouse when she objected to them questioning her son without Ramos present.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...d-diabetic-boy-insulin-suit-article-1.1888838
Atrocious