'That's for Free, Bro': New Jersey Police Officers Mocked Black Man Recovering from Brain Surgery as They Squeezed His Scrotum and Beat Him During Arrest, Lawsuit Says

'That's for Free, Bro': New Jersey Police Officers Mocked Black Man Recovering from Brain Surgery as They Squeezed His Scrotum and Beat Him During Arrest, Lawsuit Says

A federal judge ruled last month that a lawsuit filed by a Black man in Paterson, New Jersey, alleging that police officers illegally searched, beat, and sexually assaulted him in 2022 can proceed. U.S. District Judge Jamel K. Semper ruled on Sept. 22 that some of the claims of Benjamin Jackson have legal merit, while dismissing others. In his lawsuit filed in November 2024 (and obtained by Atlanta Black Star) Jackson, 35, alleges that four unde…