NYPD Sued For $25 Million Over Wrongful Conviction Of Black Man

Falsely Convicted Black Man Sues NYPD For $25 Million After Serving 24 Years In Prison

Yet another wrongfully-convicted black man was forced to spend over two decades of his life behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, and now he’s rightfully seeking compensation

via CBS New York

A man who spent 24 years in prison before being retried and acquitted in a 1989 New York City killing is suing police, saying detectives mishandled the investigation.

Derrick Deacon is seeking unspecified damages in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the city. The city Law Department had no immediate comment.

Deacon was convicted in the 1989 shooting death of a teenager during a robbery in a Flatbush apartment complex. He was granted a new trial in 2012 after one witness recanted and an FBI cooperator identified a different man as the shooter.

It took a jury nine minutes to acquit Deacon in 2013.  Deacon also has an ongoing $25 million lawsuit against the state.

Looks like the NYPD better get ready to pay up!