The ruling was prompted, in part, by a lawsuit involving the arrest of man who accused police officers of fabricating evidence to arrest him in order to generate overtime near the end of their shift. The charges against the man, Hector Cordero, were eventually dropped.
Gabriel Harvis, a lawyer for Cordero, said Weinstein’s ruling “set the stage for the biggest challenge to unconstitutional policing practices in New York City since a trial in 2013 over the department’s overreliance on stop-and-frisk tactics,” according to the article.