Brooklyn man wins $125,000 settlement after claiming he was arrested for recording stop-and-frisk

“Now we’re going to give you what you deserve for meddling in our business and when we finish with you, you can sue the city for $5 million and get rich, we don’t care,” Lt. Dennis Ferber said, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.

n the wake of the phone video of Eric Garner’s fatal chokehold last month, the NYPD last month issued a memo reminding the entire force of the public’s right to record their activities on the street.