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MERCADO v. VEGA

161 A.D.2d 365 (1990)

Hiram Mercado, Jr., Respondent, v. Reinaldo Vega, Respondent, and City of New York, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

May 10, 1990

During the early morning hours of November 22, 1981, two police officers on radio motor patrol observed a slow-moving Pontiac Grand Prix being driven with its lights off near Bruckner Boulevard on Bronx River Avenue. When one of the officers shouted a remark which allegedly had ethnic overtones in the direction of the Pontiac, its driver, Carlos Vega, made a U-turn and accelerated north on Bronx River Avenue. The officers, who up...

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