Max Galindo with Curd, Galindo & Smith Trial Lawyers announces that he has filed a $1,000,000 Police Misconduct Tort Claim against the City of San Bernardino
Attorney Maximiliano Galindo with Curd, Galindo & Smith LLP has filed a tort claim with the City of San Bernardino and four police officers alleging excessive force and falsifying information in an official police report. The tort claim is a precursor to filing the lawsuit.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Oct. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Attorney Max Galindo with Curd, Galindo & Smith, Trial Lawyers, announces that the government tort claim filed with the City of San Bernardino alleges that four City of San Bernardino police officers, Sgt. Imran Ahmed, Officer Kevin Ramirez (Badge # 51245), Officer Paulina Zamora (Badge # 51282), and Officer Joe Lucero (Badge # 51153) of the San Bernardino Police Department, and others, acted while in the course and scope of their employment and under color of authority as police officers for the City of San Bernardino. The filed tort claim alleges that on April 18, 2021, Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed acted with excessive force as the Claimant was in a submissive position, kneeling on the ground, face down, with arms outstretched behind him, and had surrendered to officers when officers first made contact with Claimant at 1436 Valencia Avenue.
The tort claim alleges that Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed, City of San Bernardino and its employees, violated the Claimant's civil rights and constitutional rights, including unlawful search and seizure. The claim alleges Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed attempted to cover-up and suppress the truth surrounding the subject incident by filing false police reports and attempting to cover the video evidence at the time of the assault and battery on Claimant. Additionally, the tort claim alleges that Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed threatened Claimant while at the scene, prior to being treated by San Bernardino County Fire personnel, and at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center on the day of the incident. The tort claim alleges that Officers Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed told Claimant to misstate the true facts about how Claimant fractured his right humerus and coerced him into making a false statement on video in an effort to cover-up the beating and fracture that Claimant suffered at the hands of Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed. The tort claim alleges that body cam video evidence clearly shows that Officers Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed filed false reports and in fact caused the injuries to Claimant, who was not resisting and submissive, kneeling down, head down, with his arms outstretched behind his back when officers arrived to make contact with Claimant.
The tort claim alleges that officers Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed acted with excessive force when they made contact with Claimant's person without justification. The tort claim alleges that Sgt. Imran Ahmed, Kevin Ramirez, Paulina Zamora and Joe Lucero kicked and punched Claimant multiple times, and violently twisted Claimant's right arm, causing Claimant's right humerus to be fractured.
The tort claim also alleges that, Claimant, JOSE GARIBO, was struck multiple times by officers Kevin Ramirez, Joe Lucero, Paulina Zamora and Sgt. Imran Ahmed without justification, causing Claimant's right humerus fracture, which required surgical open internal fixation.
Mr. Galindo is a trial lawyer with Curd, Galindo & Smith, LLP which is a law firm that represents both corporate and professional clients and those who have been seriously injured or have lost a family member due to an accident, defective product, police misconduct or negligence. The law firm has recovered millions of dollars for its thousands of clients since 1995 by winning complex and challenging business disputes, death and injury cases involving police misconduct, traffic collisions, work place injuries and defective products, including defective automobiles, against some of the world's largest companies and governmental agencies.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Galindo volunteered for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office in the Major Crimes Unit and the Preliminary Hearings Unit, where he developed his skills and learned how to passionately and successfully represent individuals in a wide range of cases and circumstances.
A member of the California State Bar, Mr. Galindo received his J.D. from Boston College Law School where he was an active member of the Boston College Innocence Project, the Immigration Law Group, and clerked with the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with a Bachelor's of Arts in Classical Civilizations and a member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA).
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Maximiliano Galindo, Curd, Galindo & Smith, LLP, 800-300-2300, [email protected]
Alexis Galindo, Curd, Galindo & Smith LLP, 562-624-1177, [email protected]
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