The five protesters named in the lawsuit were Charles Henry Wood, music teacher Ricardo Nigaglioni, special needs teacher Alex Gutierrez, former Peace Corps member Samira Sierra and her doula siste…
Soon, officers “started hitting people with batons. They started ramming people with bikes. They started spraying tear gas. There were cops on top of cars that were punching demonstrators,” she said.While she was seized and flung to the ground, Sierra said she immediately told officers that her then-22-year-old sister “had multiple sclerosis and was disabled,” the lawsuit stated.
Amali Sierra, 25, was violently arrested despite telling officers she had multiple sclerosis and was disabled, lawsuit claims.The sisters claimed the heavy-handed tactics were deliberately used in Mott Haven instead of protests in Manhattan. Nigaglioni had attended the rally with Gutierrez, a Department of Education teacher for more than 10 years who at the time was teaching physical education to special needs children as well as coaching sports.
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