By C1 Staff
NEW YORK — An inmate serving time for violating a restraining order is claiming that a black corrections officer beat him as retaliation for the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
The NY Post reports that Joseph Haggerty is suing the city for $10 million following the alleged incident.
Haggerty says the attack came after he asked an officer to move him from an overcrowded holding pen on Sept. 18.
He claims the officer told him to move his “white ass” and then punched him in the ribs, claiming the strike was “retaliation for the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases.”
Haggerty was then sent to another cell where four more black officers assaulted him, according to the civil suit.
Haggerty was treated at Elmhurst Hospital for two fractured ribs and a punctured lung.
Another inmate witnessed the alleged attack, according to Haggerty’s attorney.
A spokesperson for the city’s Law Department did acknowledge that they’d been served with the suit but could not comment.