Ben Crump, an attorney known for taking on national civil rights cases, filed a petition, alleging that the NYPD was responsible for the death of a Bronx woman over the summer inside a cell at the 41st Precinct.
The family told News 12 that the teenager was on her way home from a Fourth of July cookout at Crotona Park, when she got into a fight with her girlfriend and was arrested for disorderly conduct.
At first, police said that Cheatham became unresponsive while inside of a cell at the 41st Precinct in Longwood and died by suicide – then later said it was a medical emergency…