NEW YORK — (NEW YORK) -- Music producer Derrick Harris filed a lawsuit against the City of New York and the New York Police Department alleging he was wrongfully accused of sexual assault and imprisoned for four years on Rikers Island.
Harris was acquitted on some of the charges in 2015 and cleared of all charges in 2020, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuits also lists as defendants the police officers who arrested Harris, former New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and Carolina Holderness, the former deputy chief for the special victims bureau at the District Attorney's office.Representatives for the city of New York, Vance Jr. and Holderness did not immediately reply to ABC News' requests for comment. Attorney information for the officers was not immediately available.
Harris was punched, pushed and slammed to the ground by the officers, the lawsuit says. He was handcuffed without explanation or attempts at de-escalation, he alleges in the lawsuit. "And then he found out how easy it was for the system to gobble up a black man and just tried him out," Crump said.
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