Judge denies requests to dismiss RPD protest response lawsuit

The defendants argued that assertions made in the case were irrelevant, but Federal Judge Frank Geraci disagreed.A federal judge has rejected a request from the city of Rochester to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Rochester police officers abused their powers and engaged in racial discrimination as they responded to 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests. In doing so, the judge has allowed the class-action suit, which was filed in April 2021 by Elliot Shields of the firm Roth & Roth, to pr