NYC to Pay $567k Settlement. NYPD Cop Grabbed a Black Man from Behind and Put Him in a Chokehold to Force Him to Comply w/ a Noise Ordinance [all Laws are Backed by Violence but the Cop Used too Much]

From [HERE] Tomás Medina won’t get those minutes of his life back, but he’s getting something back from the city.

On behalf of Medina, The Legal Aid Society and Covington & Burling LLP announced a $567,500 settlement with the city in a case brought on behalf of plaintiff Tomás Medina challenging the New York City Police Department and its practice of using banned chokeholds and abusers the use if tasers.

This comes after the city attempted to get the case dismissed. 

Last year, Judge Alison Nathan ruled that the city and top NYPD officials could be held liable for Nunez’s misconduct. “Medina has raised a plausible inference that the NYPD has maintained a custom of tacitly endorsing or tolerating the improper or unconstitutional use of chokeholds and Tasers,” he said.

In 2018, Medina was placed in an illegal chokehold and tased 13 times by NYPD Detective Fabio Nunez during a response to a noise violation. After the incident was caught on video, Nunez remained on the force despite having multiple reports of misconduct. n the had been allowed to continue policing despite a long record of similar misconduct, Nunez was forced to retire after pleading guilty to an NYPD disciplinary charge of using a banned chokehold. 
This comes after the two-year anniversary of the Civilian Complaint Review Board substantiating complaints against Nunez.

“Being attacked by the NYPD was one of the scariest things to ever happen to me,” said Medina. “I could have died. What they did to me, and what they do to so many other people is not okay, but I take some comfort in knowing that Detective Nunez is no longer a police officer and that both he and the city have to pay for what they did to me.”

According to a criminal complaint, 33-year-old Tomas Medina was outside a car dealership at 438 West 206th Street around midnight on July 14th when Detective Fabio Nunez and Officer Shanee Pierce responded to a complaint of loud music. “They told me the neighbors complained about the music,” Medina told the Daily News, which first reported the story. “I told him I was already picking everything up to go.” At around the 11:39 mark in the video below, which was provided by Medina's attorneys at the Legal Aid Society, Detective Nunez approaches Medina from behind, grabs him by the neck, and pushes him into the side of a car. [MORE]