“#Cops put innocent NYC woman on blast in ‘WANTED!’ poster: suit”
July 7, 2020 | 3:28pm | Updated July 7, 2020 | 3:50pm
Vanessa Adames says the post — which features separate photos of her and three other people — went up on the 30th precinct’s Facebook page on Dec. 16 and it read: “WANTED!! Do you recognize these individuals? They are wanted for a Robbery that took place in front of 508 W.140 St on 11/24 at 5:15 PM.
“The victim was attacked and his cellphone was forcibly removed.”
A post matching the one described in the lawsuit, that shows a woman and three men, can still be found on the precinct’s Facebook page.
“Ms. Adames did not know any of the other individuals pictured in the Facebook Post and had absolutely nothing to do with any robbery,” her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Monday says.
The 33-year-old West Harlem woman went into the precinct that day and the next after receiving multiple text messages from people she knew who saw the post, the court documents say.
Adames, who was pregnant at the time, explained to a detective at the precinct the day of the post, that she didn’t know the other three people in the post and that “she had simply gone to her local deli on Nov. 24, 2019, to buy some snacks,” the court filings say.
She took time off of work to go in again the next day on Dec. 17 to explain the mix up to two different detectives who “apologized to Ms. Adames and acknowledged that she was not involved in any robbery,” the court papers say.
The cops even promised to take the photo down but then when she received more text messages the following day and called the precinct back, the detectives apologized once again but “informed her that they were not going to take her picture down from the Facebook Post, despite the fact that she was no longer wanted for any crime,” the suit charges.
Adames, who works for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, says her reputation was damaged at work and in her neighborhood.
She says she had to be interviewed by two Department of Homeland Security agents and file a written report and she now has to “report this incident on all future applications to the federal government,” the court papers say.
The whole debacle caused her to lose sleep for weeks and even “contributed to Ms. Adames suffering a miscarriage,” the court documents allege.
“Ms. Adames was shocked and extremely distressed that her picture was included on this NYPD Facebook post.,” her lawyer Malcolm Anderson told The Post. “What added insult to injury was that, after the NYPD acknowledged that Ms. Adames had absolutely nothing to do with any robbery, the NYPD still refused to remove her picture from Facebook.”
Adames is suing the city and the detectives for unspecified damages.
The city Law Department and the NYPD did not immediately return a request for comment.
Additional reporting Tina Moore
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