A Black man from upstate New York was pulled over by police for reasons never explained to him – ending up falsely arrested for possessing crack cocaine and mocked by the local media – after daring to file a complaint against the Buffalo cops who had pulled him over.
Now Bruce McNeil is about to receive a $700,000 settlement for having his rights violated by multiple officers who lied and retaliated against him for standing up to those lies.
One of those officers, John Davidson, went on to become president of the local police union, where he represents 700 police officers from the Buffalo Police Department and is frequently quoted in local media about police issues…