GUILDERLAND — The Guilderland Police Department, two of its officers, and the town of Guilderland have been named by the mother of a biracial teenager in a civil-rights lawsuit that seeks millions of dollars in damages.
In the March 27 complaint, 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.
The suit makes 10 claims — for false arrest, unlawful seizure, false imprisonment, assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, excessive force, failure to train/supervise, and failure to intervene — and seeks $1 million in damages for each cause of action…