His lawyer, Baree Fett, said, “There is something particularly vulgar about discriminatory anti-gay conduct from police officers working at a gay pride event. “I have seen too much bias and bigotry from NYPD officers, and I hope my case makes a difference,” Alejandro told The Post in a statement Tuesday. Jacob AlejandroĪll charges against the Brooklyn health educator were eventually dismissed, according to his suit, which seeks unspecified damages. I have seen too much bias and bigotry from NYPD officers. He was later charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct and released on his own recognizance, his suit says.Īfter his release, he went to Coney Island Hospital, where he was diagnosed with fractured ribs, his suit claims.Īccording to the criminal complaint in the case, Alejandro had jumped over a police barricade and then flailed his arms when cops tried to arrest him. He was eventually taken to Bellevue Hospital.
Alejandro lay on the ground bleeding, a defendant officer yelled, in sum, ‘Get the f–k up, you f-t,’” his suit states.Ĭops then piled on top of Alejandro, who is gay, and took him to the Sixth Precinct. June 29, 2014, when a police officer pushed him to the ground, injuring his elbows and left arm, according to his Manhattan federal court lawsuit. Jacob Alejandro, 25, was walking down Christopher Street in the West Village about 7:30 p.m. NYPD cops shoved a man to the ground as he left the NYC Gay Pride Parade last year, breaking his ribs, then yelled a homophobic insult at him, a new federal lawsuit claims. Straphanger strikes MTA train operator with glass bottle, cops say Woman stabbed to death inside Brooklyn check cashing business: cops NYPD officer bitten in head by pit bull on Coney Island Bail reform is to blame for flood of firearms, 'ghost gun' threat: NYPD bigwig