A former Rikers Island detainee has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit accusing two city correction officers of sexually assaulting him during a retaliatory strip search, pepper-spraying him at close range and dragging him half-naked through his cell block. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, was brought by Kyle Knight, 29, who was a […]

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