The final protester charged in reference to the 2020 Black Lives Matter George Floyd demonstrations in New York Metropolis was sentenced to 50 hours of group service on Monday for his position in a violent conflict throughout which an NYPD lieutenant was critically damage, sparking an offended response from the injured officer.
The time period was handed all the way down to Shaborn Banks, 31, by Manhattan Supreme Courtroom Justice April Newbauer, who in November discovered the Bronx man responsible of third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, in reference to the accidents suffered by Lt. Richard Mack on July 15, 2020, throughout a protest on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Newbauer acquitted Banks of first-degree assault and plenty of different felonies introduced by Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg that alleged he was primarily answerable for Mack breaking his orbital bone. The grievous harm despatched the 26-year NYPD vet into early retirement.
NYPD Lt. Richard Mack makes a sufferer’s impression assertion throughout Shaborn Banks’ sentencing Monday Dec. 22, 2025 in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom in New York, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Each day Information)
The incident occurred throughout a wild conflict on the bridge between pro- and anti-police protestors on the peak of nationwide demonstrations over the killing of Minneapolis man George Floyd by the hands of convicted former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.
Banks was charged alongside Quran Campbell, one other demonstrator amongst a number of who clashed with officers from the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group. Campbell was sentenced to 2 years in jail earlier this 12 months after pleading responsible to assaulting an officer.
Outdoors the courthouse, Mack lashed out at Newbauer and accused her of being biased.
“For the judge to say that he committed misdemeanor assault on me, that’s a repugnant verdict, and it absolutely shouldn’t have been allowed. It should have been felony assault on me. I’ve suffered enough for this city, and I deserve justice,” Mack stated.
“Obviously, this judge is very biased against police officers.”
Retired NYPD Lt. Richard Mack speaks to the media after Shaborn Banks was sentenced Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, in Manhattan Supreme Courtroom in New York Metropolis. (Barry Williams/ New York Each day Information)
Bragg’s workplace had requested a time period of 364 days, arguing that though Banks was acquitted of felonies, he was answerable for injecting himself right into a chaotic scene and had participated in conduct that left Mack injured.
“Lt. Mack was forced to lose his career and the city lost an experienced lieutenant in the police department,” Assistant District Legal professional Austin Minogue stated in court docket.
Banks’s authorized staff, in court docket papers forward of the sentencing, requested Newbauer for leniency. They maintained he solely landed a punch after the lieutenant first socked him within the face — hitting Mack’s ear, not his eye — and that footage made clear Campbell was the one who precipitated the lieutenant’s critical accidents.
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NYPD officers arrest members of the Black Lives Matter counter-protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge roadway making an attempt to dam members of assorted non secular teams together with members of police unions, SBA, PBA and others, from marching on the Brooklyn Bridge to help law enforcement officials on July 15, 2020. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Each day Information)
“If convicted, he was facing substantial mandatory prison time. He was overcriminalized to begin with, and both the judge’s verdict and sentence made that very clear.”
