Municipal officials have reached a tentative
settlement in the lawsuit that a go-go dancer filed against Paterson earlier
this year after a city police officer allegedly slammed the handcuffed woman to
the floor in a holding cell at headquarters. The incident was taped by a police
headquarters surveillance camera.
Among other six-figure
settlements in the past three years were:
$710,000 for a lawsuit filed by
a woman who said a police officer forced her to perform oral sex on him while
she was in custody at police headquarters.
$400,000 for two lawsuits filed
by men who said they were beaten by police wen they tried to collect a reward
for returning a firefighter’s lost cell phone.