Middletown settles excessive-force lawsuit for $400,000
- Middletown — A $5.50 chicken dinner that cost a Middletown cop his job
- wound up costing the City of Middletown $400,000.
ZoomPhoto providedPatrick Moser
By Oliver MacksonPosted Nov. 21, 2006 at 2:00 AM
Middletown — A $5.50 chicken dinner
that cost a Middletown cop his job wound
up costing the City of Middletown $400,000.
That's how much the city and one of its
insurance carriers paid to settle a
federal lawsuit against the police
department earlier this year, according to documents reviewed by the Times Herald-
Record. The city paid $150,000 out of its own pocket, while Selective Insurance Group
covered $250,000.
The lawsuit accused Officer Patrick Moser of using excessive force and violating
the civil rights of a 29-year-old man named Jacob Fitzgerald during an arrest
last year. Moser was booted from his job after he was caught lying about a detail
of the arrest and faces jail time. The settlement shows the price that the city as a
whole had to pay for Moser's misdeeds.
The story begins about 3 a.m. on April 9, 2005. Police got a call from the Kennedy
Fried Chicken restaurant on North Street, complaining that Fitzgerald had left without
paying for his $5.50 chicken dinner.
Fitzgerald claimed Moser punched him without provocation. He suffered a broken jaw
during the arrest.
Moser contended that Fitzgerald was drunk and belligerent and
hit his face on a divider (partition) in the police car.
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$400,000 Partition Settlement paid by City
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