GUILTY NY - Driver pulled from SUV, viciously beaten by bikers, Manhattan, 29 Sept 2013

[OkieGranny]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...ribeca-man-massacre-witness-article-1.2236774

A Washington Heights woman testified Tuesday at the trial of the undercover cop accused of taking part in biker gang beatdown said the assault she witnessed from her third-floor apartment was relentless.

“It was abusive. It was a massacre,” said Ana Luisa Emiliano-Vega, through a Spanish interpreter, referring to the bloody attack on 35-year-old Tribeca dad Alexian Lien.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/05/28/wojciech-braszczok-biker-trial/

The police handler for the undercover NYPD detective accused in the gang assault on an SUV driver testified in the cop’s trial Thursday...

He testified that the day before the motorcycle rally that ended in the gang assault on Alexian Lien, Detective Wojciech Braszczok sent him a text message with the subject “mayhem.” When the handler asked him what he meant, Braszczok replied that a thousand bikers were riding around the five boroughs, running red lights and performing tricks.

The handler testified that it was three days after the September 2013 assault before Braszczok came clean — sort of — admitting that he was there but didn’t see the assault. Videos recorded at the scene seem to suggest otherwise.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Undercover NYPD detective thought father beaten by angry motorcycle mob 'was the aggressor': Officer said he did not intervene because he 'feared' for his own safety

Detective Wojciech Braszczok was off-duty and riding with the bikers

Several motorcyclists surrounded Alexian Lien on a Manhattan street

Lien, fearing for his safety, sped off, striking one of the motorcyclists

Prosecutors claim the bikers chased Lien and eventually assaulted him

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ot-intervene-feared-safety.html#ixzz3c0ALlIGx

 

[Snoods]

Undercover Cop Cleared of Top Counts in Biker Melee, SUV Attack, Convicted of Lesser Charges. Braszckzok and his co-defendent, Robert Sims, will be sentenced on August 5 and 6. Braszczok faces a maximum sentence of seven years, and Sims between five and 15 years.

A judge delivered the verdict Tuesday in the bench trial of detective Wojciech Braszczok, finding him not guilty of gang assault, attempted gang assault and first-degree assault, but guilty of second- and third-degree assault, coercion, riot and criminal mischief in the September 2013 attack on SUV driver Alexian Lien.

Braszczok's co-defendant, Robert Sims, was also convicted of the lower counts but acquitted of the top charges in the motorcycle rally that devolved into pandemonium and became a highway horror story to millions who saw a helmet-camera video posted online.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...Side-Highway-Police-Braszczok--306621611.html
http://news.yahoo.com/judge-convicts-ny-detective-bloody-road-rage-chase-173013752.html

 

[wendiesan]

Thanks Snoods.

I'm really disappointed in the judge's verdict of not guilty on the top charges.

 

[Snoods]

Yup, me too, wendiesan. I guess his strategy of going for a trial by judge and not jury worked out for him. At least he was convicted of something, though.

 

[wendiesan]

Thanks Snoods.
Since the bikercop is now showing his face, my guess is there will be no real punishment attached to those lesser charges. ie, he doesn't seem worried that he'll have to face any of the men he put away in his role as a police officer. So, no probably no jail time.
My hope is that the victims have a pitbull lawyer who can't wait to get the civil trial started.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

Undercover cop is sentenced to 2 years for role in mass biker brawl that saw banker dragged from his SUV and beaten in front of his wife and toddler on Manhattan highway

Wojciech Braszczok was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in jail

Video footage of the 2013 pursuit and assault showed bikers surrounding Alexian Lien's Range Rover on a Manhattan exit ramp

Lien, a married father, was pulled from the vehicle and beaten

Eleven men were indicted in the confrontation

Braszczok did not participate in Lien's beating but video footage showed him breaking the SUV's taillight window

He then fled but did not call 911 or attempt to stop the assault

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ts-2-years-biker-SUV-melee.html#ixzz3i25Jw7Kl

 

[wendiesan]

Still the civil suit though, right?

 

[OkieGranny]

From August:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/07/nyregion/final-biker-is-sentenced-in-assault-on-suv-driver.html

A state judge sentenced the last of the motorcyclists convicted of attacking a driver in Upper Manhattan to three and a half years in prison on Thursday after the defendant gave a tearful apology in court.

The defendant, Robert Sims, 37, a Brooklyn electrician, said he had lost control when he and several other bikers dragged Alexian Lien from his Range Rover on 178th Street near Wadsworth Avenue and beat him in front of his wife, Rosalyn Ng, and their 2-year-old daughter.