On appeal, the Port Authority does not contest the jury's finding of liability against it for its actions in detaining plaintiff for a period of 3½ hours after three of its police officers had assaulted and arrested him at St. Clare's Hospital. The incident had racial overtones. Plaintiff, a black man, had, by ambulance, brought his white, 14-year-old stepdaughter Janet, the daughter of his former common-law wife, whom plaintiff had raised since she was five, to St....
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