Brooklyn man accuses NYPD detectives of threatening false confession out of him
NYPD detectives threatened to shoot a Brooklyn man in custody if he didn’t write a false confession to a string of Bedford-Stuyvesant robberies, the man charged in a lawsuit this week.
Emanuel Dash is suing the city and four detectives after he spent 17 months in jail before a Brooklyn jury found him not guilty of four armed robberies all in April 2015 and all within a block of each other, according to the civil complaint.
Dash’s federal court suit alleges Detective Ronald Montas “falsely and perjuriously testified that the plaintiff had confessed to these robberies,” by threatening to shoot Dash if he didn’t write the [confession] while in police custody.
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