MacFall v. City of Rochester

DECISION AND ORDER

DAVID G. LARIMER, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Lending credence to the adage that “nothing good happens after midnight,” this action has its roots in an altercation involving two groups of people and several officers of the Rochester (New York) Police Department (“RPD”) in the wee hours on the morning of June 1, 2007. What might have seemed at the time like an unexceptional late-night ruckus that would soon be forgotten ended up garnering considerable attention in the news media, spawning public accusations of “gay bashing” against the police officers, and generating no less…