Rochester Businessman sues Rochester Police Department for fifth consecutive time

Theodore “Teddy” Loria who successfully sued the Rochester, New York, Police Department four separate times in federal court for a continuous pattern of violating his civil rights back in the 1990’s, and who currently has a fifth lawsuit pending in said court, is asking for:

(1) The immediate implementation of a true Civilian Review Board with subpoena and investigative powers and no ties or affiliation with the City of Rochester or its Police Department:

(2) An immediate, complete and thorough investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice

and:

(3) A Federal Consent Decree to be issued against the Rochester Police Department, because he strongly feels that the Internal Affairs Division of the Rochester Police Department is biased and conducted an insufficient police investigation into complaints he made in his fifth lawsuit which stemmed from two separate incidents which occurred within 30 feet of a 24 hour police surveillance camera directly in front of his family’s former carpet store located on the corner of Monroe Avenue and Meigs Street in the City of Rochester on February 11, and July 24, 2009.

The Rochester Police Department's Internal Affairs Division never reviewed the video footage from the police camera even though it was requested that they do so, by Mr. Loria’s then attorney Nira T. Kermisch, in the Internal Affairs interview which was recorded. The video surveillance footage would have corroborated and sustained Mr. Loria's claims of corruption and misconduct in his two separate complaints against the Rochester Police Department.

Mr. Loria also feels that the Community Commission formed by City Councilman Adam McFadden and Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard is a fraud and extremely biased on behalf of the Rochester Police Department, and was solely created as a public relations stunt to benefit Councilman McFadden’s re-election campaign and also to ease the negative attention Police Chief Sheppard has received over the last couple of months due to his department’s long systematic pattern, practice and history of violating people’s civil rights and especially minorities here in Rochester, New York, and retaliating against citizens who challenge their authority and expose their corruption and misconduct.

COPY OF FIFTH CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT: #file_3#