Timothy Brown, the 46-year-old Brooklyn man who was repeatedly punched and kicked by two New York Police Department officers after he was wrongly identified as a suspect, has filed a $100 million federal lawsuit against New York City.
As previously reported by Face2Face Africa, the April 14 incident, which happened inside a Cobble Hill liquor store, was captured on video that went viral after it was circulated on social media.
Besides the city, the other defendants named in the lawsuit include the detectives linked to the incident and their supervisors, WABC reported. Brown is accusing the defendants of excessive force, false arrest, and malicious prosecution…