Managing Partner Donald M. Thompson Leads Legal Team in Filing a Landmark Federal Class Action Lawsuit against the Rochester Police Department and Local Political Leaders.

Posted by on April 7, 2021 in Firm News

On Monday, April 5, 2021, ETKS Managing Partner Donald M. Thompson, along with attorneys from Baker & Hostetler LLP, Neufeld Scheck & Brustin, LLP, Roth & Roth, LLP, and the Law Office of Joshua Moskovitz, P.C. Baker & Hostetler, filed a landmark federal class action lawsuit in the United States District Court, Western District of New York on behalf of citizens of Monroe County in which they outline a four-decade long history of excessive force and tactics utilized by the Rochester Police Departent that are “inhumane, racist, and antithetical to the functioning of a civilized society.”, in violation of the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

You may read the lawsuit in its entirety by clicking here.