A Manhattan jury claimed to have suffered brain damage when NYPD police officers threw her to the ground during a 2012 Wall Street occupation protest. Awarded over $ 400,000 to women.
Mary Tardiff, 33, received compensation of $ 431,250 on Friday. This is almost 10 years after she filed a 2013 lawsuit alleging that her military personnel injured her while she was serving as a drug for the left-wing demonstrators.
Manhattan's Tardiff sought unspecified damage and called her decision "very proof."
"I feel like I actually knew justice for the first time," Tardif said in an interview.
Tardiff — I work for Broadway Advocacy Coalition. — She has been suffering from epilepsy since she was 19 years old.
Due to a fierce encounter at Union Square, her head hit the ground, leaving a permanent brain injury that limited her expertise, according to evidence from Tardiff and her trial. ..
She said she considered this award. The victory of "the occupants who could not see this day or spend the day in court".
"It feels like a victory for all of us," she said. "I wish I could share it with them. There were so many."
A Legal official said Tardiff was "thrown to the ground, as she claimed." "It never happened," and the city said it was "disappointed" with the result.
The 2018 jury dismissed the claim before Manhattan's Second US Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the case due to a flaw in the first trial, spokesperson said.
"In addition, unfortunately, the jury was unaware that [Tardif] had caused new injuries in this second trial that were never claimed in the first case." Paolucci said.
With post wire
