No. 21-cv-6296 (W.D.N.Y.)
After decades of unchecked violence by the Rochester Police Department against people of color and people protesting the Department’s racist policing practices, ten individuals, Free the People Roc, and the Rochester Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild filed this class action lawsuit to end the Police Department’s decades’ long pattern of excessive force and biased policing.
Filed one year after Rochester police officers killed Daniel Prude, and 150 years after the passage of one of the most important federal civil rights laws still in use (42 U.S.C. § 1983), Hall v. Warren seeks broad injunctive relief to stop the Rochester Police Department’s unconstitutional policies and customs. The lawsuit also demands reparations for the injuries caused by the Department’s past practices.
In June 2022, the Northern District of New York federal court largely denied the Defendants’ motions to dismiss and allowed Plaintiffs’ claims to proceed, including racial discrimination claims based on the Rochester Police Department’s practice of using disproportionate use of force against people of color.
Rickner Moskovitz LLP are co-counseling the case with the law firms of Roth & Roth, Neufeld Scheck Brustin Hoffmann & Freudenberger, Easton Thompson Kasperek Shiffrin, and Baker & Hostetler.
