Upstate NY ice cream shop owner made racist taunts to protesters, wrongly called cops, says AG [View all]
An upstate ice cream shop owner was a weaponized harasser of minorities who wrongly took his race-based hatred to police, says a lawsuit filed by New York attorney general Letitia James.
The suit, filed Wednesday in Schenectady Supreme Court, is the first brought by the AG’s office under a law passed by the Legislature last year that allows the state to sue people motivated by racial or other bias who call police “without reason to suspect a violation of the penal law.”
The law was passed after a Manhattan woman, Amy Cooper, called police on a Black man who complained her dog was off its leash in Central Park.
David Elmendorf, owner of Bumpy’s Polar Freeze in Schenectady, brandished a .22 caliber air rifle against people protesting his alleged racism, says the lawsuit.
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