Teen Sueing For $5 MillioN in Damages in The Jay St. Metro-Tech Melee

One of the teenagers captured at the Jay Street-MetroTech station during a wild tram fight with police is suing the NYPD.

Benjamin Marshall, alongside his family additionally, recorded a notice of guarantee against the NYPD for $5 million in harms after they state the youngster was punched in the head by an official and pummeled to the ground at the Jay Street-MetroTech tram station.

The 15-year-old showed up in court Wednesday just because since the occurrence and his attorney reveals to News 12 that his case has been suspended until Friday for further examination. Video before long surfaced throughout the end of the week indicating a savage conflict between officials in the 84th Precinct and a gathering of youngsters. In any case, the NYPD claims a few people were opposing capture, one in any event, assaulting officials.

The viral video picked up the consideration of Borough President Eric Adams who remarked on what had all the earmarks of being a clasp of a NYPD official punching one of the youngsters.

Adams took to Twitter to express, "All cops in our city, any place they police, should wear body cameras. We would not have comprehended what occurred at Jay Street-MetroTech if video was not appeared, so we ought not have state troopers in the tram framework that are not ready to wear body cameras."

NYPD Police Commissioner James O'Neill says that the official has since been moved to non-authorization obligation. The NYPD had no further remark on the occurrence or the notice of guarantee.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office says it is auditing” NYPD Police Commissioner James O'Neill says that the official has since been moved to non-authorization obligation. The NYPD had no further remark on the occurrence or the notice of guarantee.

The Brooklyn District Attorney's Office says it is auditing the occurrence.

Marshall is one of five teenagers that were captured during the fight.

The group of an understudy slugged by a cop and pummeled to the ground on a Brooklyn metro stage is recording a $5 million notice of case against the official and the NYPD, their attorney said Tuesday. Benjamin Marshall, 15, was punched in the face by a cop during a scuffle that broke out inside the Jay St.- MetroTech tram station Friday evening.

The Science Skills Center High School understudy was one of five teenagers captured during the wild, got on-camera fight that began after two enormous gatherings went to blows in a battle that began over the ground. In any case, Benjamin's vexed guardians said their child wasn't even in the battle. They said he pursued his companion into the station to get his knapsack.

“While he went down into the train station, there was a lot of cops, a lot of students,” said Benjamin's father, Anthony Noel, 53. “They were arresting a couple people. When he got down on the platform, one of his friends called out to him, and when he looked over, he got punched multiple times by a police officer in his head. Then he was slammed to the ground."

“About six of them or eight of them were on top of him. One put his knee in his neck. He kept saying, ‘I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe,’ and they would not let up. They handcuffed him. Slammed him into a sign.”

Noel didn't need to depend entirely on Benjamin's rendition of occasions. Mobile phone video of the hubbub became famous online, and Noel said it sickened him to see his child slugged by a community worker for apparently no explanation.

“There’s no words to describe what I’m feeling right now besides being furious and angry with what happened,” Noel relayed. “Because he could have been dead I’m just outraged to see a cop punching my son in his face. Multiple times.”

What's more, as though observing viral video of their child being walloped by a cop was insufficient, Noel said cops at Brooklyn's 84th Precinct deceived them about what occurred — reprimanding Benjamin for assaulting the cop.

"A big lie," his father said.

Benjamin's folks said they left the region at 8:45 p.m. at the point when cops would not give them a chance to see him. At 2 a.m., they got a call from a specialist looking for consent to treat him.

“So between that time, he wasn’t able to get any medical attention,” Noel relayed.

The family's legal counselor, Sanford Rubenstein, said he was intending to document a notice of case for the benefit of the family on Wednesday. The notice, the initial phase in documenting a claim, names the city, the NYPD and the anonymous cops.

Rubenstein said he is additionally organizing a gathering between the family and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez. In the mean time, Benjamin's criminal case is the subject of a 10 a.m. hearing Wednesday in family court. Benjamin was accused as an adolescent of attacking a cop, authorities said.

“This police officer’s actions were out of control,” Rubenstein said. ”He was not part of or involved in the melee that was ongoing at the train station. For a police officer to punch a 15 year old in the face when he was doing nothing wrong is simply unacceptable.”

The thunder between two enormous gatherings began over the ground on Jay St. before everybody ran into the station, authorities said. As cops were brought in to suppress the battle, one of the adolescents punched an official, police said.

Spectators taped the scene with cellphone cameras as officials battled with more teenagers. At a certain point in the video, the cop is seen slugging a youngster. In the wake of subdueing that teenager, the official gets up and slugs Benjamin, the video appears.

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