GUILDERLAND — A civil-rights lawsuit filed against the Guilderland Police Department, two of its officers, and the town of Guilderland seeking millions of dollars in damages has been moved from a county courtroom to a federal forum.
In the March 27 complaint filed with the Albany County Supreme Court, Alicia Crandall claims that, in March 2023, Guilderland police officers Barak Strock and Carl Duda physically forced her biracial teenager, identified in court documents as LY, and two other Black minors onto a bus at Crossgates Mall, ordered the driver to lock the doors, and directed the bus to leave, all without evidence of any criminal activity.
It was the town, not Crandall, that had the case moved to federal court…