A Staten Island man is suing the city claiming an NYPD officer slammed his head against the roof of a car, shattering his two front teeth.
According to the NY Daily News, Khan, 24, was driving his cousin’s Mercedes when plainclothes officers approached his car on Regis Drive, directly outside of his home with guns drawn and pulled him out of the vehicle.
SI Live reports: “The worst that he did was maybe speeding,” Khan’s lawyer, Harvey Greenberg, said Wednesday. “Though there was never a speeding ticket given.”
Greenberg said the cops tore his client’s car apart looking for drugs.
After the search came up empty, an irritated Officer Mark Scarlatelli grabbed Khan’s head and rammed it into the roof of the car, Greenberg said.
“I just think the cop was so upset at his misjudgment that he just grabbed [Khan’s] head and pushed it into the driver’s side of the roof,” he said.
“(Khan) asked the officers if he could look on the ground for pieces of his teeth,” the suit states. “The police officer then pointed his flashlight to the roof of the car and (Khan) saw his teeth visibly indented in the roof of the car . . . then exclaimed, ‘Those are part of my teeth.’ ”
Earlier this month, the Civilian Complaint Review Board substantiated Khan’s claims of excessive force by Scarlatelli, improper search by Marshall and the failure of Officer John Ryan, the third officer on the scene, to report Khan’s injury to the Internal Affairs Bureau, Greenberg said.
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