BY JOE MALINCONICO
PATERSON PRESS
PATERSON - City officials have
agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit in which a resident says a police
officer assaulted him in January 2010.
The lawsuit says Tyree Glover
was walking down an unspecified street when the officer, Dustin Bradley, yelled
at him and then shoved his head against a parked vehicle for no reason.
Bradley was working on a
off-duty police-assigned security job in uniform at the time of the incident,
according to legal papers. The suit says Bradley then conducted a search of
Glover that was intrusive and humiliating.
The lawsuit alleged that
Bradley targeted Glover because the resident is black. But the complaint
provides no details backing up that claim.
City officials declined to
comment on the case. The council approved the $50,000 settlement last month.
Bradley was one of the police
officers laid off because of budget cuts in 2011.
In 2012, Bradley was charged
with unlawful possession of a weapon in connection with a fight in Morris
County, during which he allegedly fired his gun into the air, according to news
reports.
