Lawmakers sue over NYPD’s response to Brooklyn George Floyd protest

A pair of Brooklyn state lawmakers on Monday filed suit against the city, the NYPD and several top police officials, claiming they were rammed by cops with bicycles and pepper sprayed during an anti-police brutality protest last summer.

State Assemblywoman Diana Richardson and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, both Democrats representing Crown Heights and surrounding areas, claim in the Brooklyn federal court suit that their constitutional rights — including their First Amendment Right to free speech — were violated by the cops during the protest outside Barclays Center last May. The suit claims the lawmakers were assaulted by cops on May 29 after the NYPD announced they were going to break up the protest — and began “kettling” demonstrators near the arena.