Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY - Lawsuit Dropped by Mother of Gidone Busch Against NYC Police Shooting

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY -The mother of the hammer-wielding Gidone Busc who was fatally shot by police in 1999 has dropped a lawsuit that claimed the officers overreacted and used excessive force.

Gidone Busch's family sought unspecified damages in the lawsuit, which was filed in August 2000 against the city and the five officers involved in the shooting.
The officers were cleared in a civil trial in 2003, but the following year a judge overturned the jury's verdict, saying the officers "gave exaggerated or overstated versions of the events, especially regarding key details about the shooting."

In a letter to District Judge John Gleeson, Busch's mother, Doris Boskey, wrote that it "would take a lot to go through another civil trial."
"It would be about putting a monetary value on a life that was precious, not about real justice or accountability," she wrote.

The officers had testified in the civil trial that after confronting Busch on a Brooklyn street, he attacked a sergeant with a hammer. When Busch, a 31-year-old Hasidic Jew, refused to drop the hammer, the officers said, they responded with a barrage of bullets. He was hit 12 times.