Diabetic Brooklyn teen denied insulin after being falsely arrested on attempted murder charges: suit

BY BARBARA ROSS , KERRY BURKE , CORKY SIEMASZKO NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

The NYPD has been hit with a federal lawsuit by a Brooklyn family that claims cops bullied a diabetic teen who was denied insulin while falsely locked up on attempted murder charges.

Richard Gonzalez’s family said the only evidence cops had to tie the 14-year-old special-ed student to an April shooting at Foot Locker in Bushwick were eyewitnesses who told them the gunman was named “Richie.”

When police got the frightened boy alone in a men’s room at the 83rd Precinct, “with balled fists” they “tried to manipulate him into confessing,” the family’s lawyer Carmen Giordano wrote in court papers filed in Brooklyn federal court.

“You going down,” one of them said, according to the lawsuit.

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