A couple in Brooklyn is fighting to get New York City to do the right thing – to pay for their car that was totaled during a NYPD high-speed pursuit. The Comptroller’s Office said the city is not legally responsible for the damage.
“It’s difficult to put into words how angry I am,” Adam Rizer told 7 On Your Side Investigates reporter Kristin Thorne.
On November 10 around 10:30 p.m., an undercover police officer was pursuing a suspected stolen vehicle traveling on Central Avenue in Bushwick. Surveillance video obtained by Eyewitness News shows the undercover vehicle with its flashing lights fly through an intersection T-boning one car and then colliding with Rizer’s 2021 Jeep which was parked outside their apartment on Central Avenue. Videos and pictures from the scene also show the police vehicle smashed right up against the Rizer’s car.
“The police car had enough momentum to smash into my car so hard that it lifted onto the sidewalk,” Rizer said.
Pictures from the scene show the unmarked police car – a black sedan – slammed up against the Rizer’s gray Jeep Renegade.