Jury Awards Over $2 Million to Air Force Veteran for Excessive Force and Battery by Nassau County Police
Brooklyn, NY – A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded over $2.3 million to Robert Besedin Sr., a Long Island Air Force veteran, concluding a civil rights lawsuit he filed against two Nassau County police officers. The verdict, reached on Wednesday, resulted from a 2017 incident where Besedin claimed the officers forcibly threw him down concrete stairs outside his Baldwin home. The jury found that one officer was guilty of using excessive force, and Nassau County was liable for battery by its officers. Additionally, the panel determined that officers Stephen Beckwith and Dominick Mantovani maliciously prosecuted … Read more