An 18-year-old New Yorker is suing the city for $1 million because police called him “Plaxico Burress” after he had been shot. Christian Dudley claims he was shot during a robbery attempt, but police charged him with criminal possession of a weapon after deeming his wound self-inflicted.
The charges against Dudley were dropped last month and now he’s looking to get paid.
“As soon as I went into the precinct and I had the cuffs on they said, ‘Oh, is this Plaxico?’” Dudley said. “And then when I was in the cell, while they processed me, they called me Plaxico, making fun of me.”
The NY Daily News story paints the picture of a pretty good kid and the NYPD is known for being foul. If they thought he was shot by somebody else they probably would’ve called him Sean Taylor, Joey Porter, Steve McNair, Curtis Brinkley, Steve Foley, Jerome McDougle, Richard Collier, or Darrent Williams.
Cops compared me to troubled ex-Giant Plaxico Burress, says shot teen [NY Daily News]
