The family of a mentally ill Chasidic man in Brooklyn killed last year by New York City policemen filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the officers involved in the incident. The officers involved in this week’s lawsuit were already exonerated by a grand jury for shooting Gidone Busch, who police say was threatening officers with a hammer.
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