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A Palm Bay man was awarded over $400,000 by a Brevard County jury last week after being injured in a crash with a police officer last year, according to court records.
Ricardo Madrigal was driving through a green light at the intersection of Palm Bay Road and Babcock Street on Aug. 8, 2018 when he was T-boned by Palm Bay Police Officer Noe Borjas.
Madrigal s neck and back were permanently injured and both vehicles involved were severely damaged, according to the lawsuit.
Madrigal represented by Morgan & Morgan was awarded $416,182.22 by a jury after a trial presided over by Judge Dave Dugan at the Moore Justice Center in Viera.
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A lawsuit filed Thursday night by civil rights attorneys Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson and Steven Hart over the shooting death of two Black Cocoa teens by a Brevard County Sheriff s deputy goes beyond putting the actions of two deputies on trial; it s an indictment of Sheriff Wayne Ivey s office. You will see the allegations we have are not only against the officers, because the officer is born of a culture that Wayne Ivey has provided for his officers in Brevard County, Natalie Jackson told media and supporters standing outside the Moore Justice Center in Viera Friday morning.
Crump, flanked by co-counsel Jackson, the families of Sincere Pierce and Angelo A.J. Crooms and local activists and community members, called for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Sheriff s Office and also review the decision by State Attorney Phil Archer not to charge BCSO deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda in the killing of A.J. and Pierce.
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Arm in arm, the families of two teenagers killed by a Brevard County sheriff s deputy in Cocoa last year walked with high-profile civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump to the lawn outside the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Justice Center in Viera Friday.
With a crowd of around 50 supporters, Tallahassee-based Crump and co-counsel Natalie Jackson announced officially the filing of a lawsuit against Deputy Jafet-Santiago-Miranda and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for the shooting deaths of 18-year-old Sincere Pierce and 16-year-old Angelo A.J. Crooms on Nov. 13, 2020.