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Man, 84, left bloodied by New York cops during a jaywalking ticket blitz sues for US$5m
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The 84-year-old Manhattan man left bruised and bloodied by NYPD cops during a jaywalking ticket blitz plans to hit back with a US$5 million lawsuit, the New York Daily news reported.
Kang Chun Wong has lived in the same Upper West Side neighborhood for nearly five decades, the report said. He reportedly owned the popular La Nueva Victoria restaurant on Broadway while raising three sons, and now spends his retirement doting on his grandchildren and socializing with friends at a senior center in Chinatown.
The senior was stopped by police when he was strolling north on Broadway and crossing 96th Street against a light on January 19. Police were then targeting jaywalkers following the third pedestrian fatality in the area this year.
Wong appeared not to understand the officer, witnesses said. One said the officer stood the elderly man up against a wall and was trying to write a ticket, but Wong didn’t seem to understand and was struggling to get away. Other officers arrived, according to the witnesses, and Wong was left bleeding and dazed with cuts to his face.
He was handcuffed and taken to hospital. Later, he was taken to a police station.
“I didn’t commit any crime,” Wong said during the exclusive interview, translated by family lawyer Hazel Chin, local media reported.
“It was excessive how they (the police) did it to me. If I did something wrong, I could understand, but I didn’t. “They make me feel shame,” he said. “I was very humiliated.”
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