Troy officers cleared of excessive force
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1of3Buy PhotoPolice cars are seen parked outside the Troy Police Station on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 in Troy, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
2of3Buy PhotoA police officer is seen closing the back of a police car parked outside the Troy Police Station on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020 in Troy, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union)Lori Van Buren/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
A federal jury in Utica took less than three hours Wednesday to clear four Troy police officers of allegations that they used excessive force on a then-50-year-old man outside a Congress Street bar in 2018.
Four Troy officers on trial in Utica for alleged excessive force
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Four Troy police officers are on trial in U.S. District Court in Utica, accused in a civil case of beating a then 50-year-old man during his arrest outside a Congress Street bar in 2018. Lawyers for Lamont Lee said police punched, kneed and kicked him. (Skip Dickstein/Times Union)SKIP DICKSTEIN
Four Troy police officers are on trial in U.S. District Court in Utica, accused in a civil case of beating a man during his arrest outside a Congress Street bar in 2018.
Attorneys for the plaintiff, Lamont Lee, contend in a pre-trial brief that city Patrolmen Christopher Parker, Louis Perfetti, Justin Ashe and Kyle Jones used “gratuitous and excessive force” allegedly using their knees, punches and a choke hold against Lee on the night of March 3, 2018 outside Vivian’s Bar on Congress Street.