Harassment allegation against Erie County Sheriff candidate cost taxpayers $10,000
Kimberly Beaty denied wrongdoing
and last updated 2021-04-19 08:37:51-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â For eight years starting in the early 2000s, Patrick Mann was Kimberly Beatyâs supervisor at the Buffalo Police training academy.
But Beaty was in the midst of a âmeteoric riseâ to the top of the police brass, becoming a lieutenant, then district chief and by 2014, deputy police commissioner.
By 2017, the promotions resulted in Beaty, who was one of the few women of color in leadership positions on the police force, supervising her old boss and Mann, a police captain, claimed Beaty âexerted her authority over meâ to the point of harassment.
Lawyers representing a 75-year-old protester shoved to the ground by upstate New York police during demonstrations that broke out in the days after George Floyd’s death filed a widely anticipated lawsuit in federal court Monday, less than two weeks after criminal charges against the officers involved were dropped.
Martin Gugino, then 75, was pushed to the ground by officers during a protest against police violence last year. A video of the episode, which left Mr. Gugino with a fractured skull, circulated widely online.
"If any one person's rights are suppressed by the state, it harms all of us by eroding the foundation of our constitution," one of his lawyers said.