Brooklyn bar owner accuses police of draining his liquor stock - Polidicks

[quote] NEW YORK - The owner of a Brooklyn bar is suing New York City after police emptied the bar's entire stock of alcohol down the drain in a liquor licence dispute, according to court papers. Mr David Kelleran, 51, claimed in his lawsuit that the police's Prohibition-style tactics violated state law and trampled on his rights. And, in any case, the police got the wrong address. Mr Kelleran, who owns the restaurant called 68, is seeking an unspecified amount of damages for the loss of alcohol worth "thousands of thousands" of dollars, his attorney Craig Trainor said yesterday. According to the lawsuit, Mr Kelleran was notified in July 2011 by the New York State Liquor Authority that his US$4,382 (S$5,488) check to renew 68's liquor licence bounced and he had ten days to make the payment. Before the ten days were up, Mr Kelleran said police came to his apartment over the restaurant in Brooklyn and arrested him for selling alcoholic drinks without a license. He spent the night in jail, the lawsuit said. While he was in jail, police went into Coco66, a bar Mr Kelleran owned next door to 68, and poured all his wine, beer and liquor down a drain, the lawsuit said. Both the bar and restaurant have been closed since, even though the liquor license for Coco66 was valid, his suit said. "Frankly, it is hard for any reasonable person to fathom that, in 2011, a high-level NYPD ranking officer would order his subordinate police officers to destroy lawful private property in this way," Mr Trainor said in an email. The city's law department said it was reviewing the lawsuit, which was filed last week in federal court in Brooklyn, but did not offer further comment. A spokesman for the New York Police Department did not respond to a request for comment. REUTERS[/quote] [url]http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC120817-0000111/Brooklyn-bar-owner-accuses-police-of-draining-his-liquor-stock[/url] All that alcohol gone to waste.

Wow the NYPD has been getting some seriously bad press recently. [QUOTE=Samiam22;37295395]Breaking News: Squad of NYPD police officers seem following rules, helping people, more at 11! Yeah, I don't think it'd be that interesting either[/QUOTE] No shit, did you really think I implied that they WOULD report good deeds? You shouldn't act like such a smartass.

[QUOTE=Amez;37295267]Wow the NYPD has been getting some seriously bad press recently.[/QUOTE] Its because the police doing 'wrong' is all that makes the headlines. The good never gets published because we just take it for granted.

[QUOTE=Amez;37295267]Wow the NYPD has been getting some seriously bad press recently.[/QUOTE] Breaking News: Squad of NYPD police officers seem following rules, helping people, more at 11! Yeah, I don't think it'd be that interesting either

NYPD shouldn't even be in-charge of doing those kind of actions. Shouldn't somebody from NYS Liquor Authority come by and do the disposal, not the police department?

[QUOTE=W00tbeer1;37295705]NYPD shouldn't even be in-charge of doing those kind of actions. Shouldn't somebody from NYS Liquor Authority come by and do the disposal, not the police department?[/QUOTE] I'll bet you not all the liquor went down the drain.

[QUOTE=areolop;37295332]Its because the police doing 'wrong' is all that makes the headlines. The good never gets published because we just take it for granted.[/QUOTE] well unless they safe a life or something