- A man claimed an NYPD officer made him strip naked in a cell at a Mets game in 2022.
- An April lawsuit also claimed that an employee forced him to sign an agreement for his clothes.
A man claimed a New York City Police Department officer working security at a Mets game pulled him away from a baseball game last year and forced him to strip naked, per a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in late April.
The man alleged that the incident happened on April 30, 2022, when the Mets played the Philadelphia Phillies at Citi Field stadium, according to the lawsuit, first spotted by Daily Beast reporter Justin Rohrlich.
The man is suing for false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, and negligence, and seeks punitive damages for the stress caused by the incident and costs for bringing the case to court.
According to the suit, the man was grabbed and taken to a holding cell at Citi Field by the NYPD officer who was "acting at the request of a security guard employed" by the Mets. The plaintiff added in the suit that the security guard "deliberately and falsely claimed" that the man had been fighting at the stadium. The NYPD officer then told the man that he must strip naked to be released, per the suit.
The plaintiff complied. A person he claimed was employed by the Mets then came to the holding cell while he was naked, laughed at him, and shook his head. He was then asked to sign a paper that would ban him from the stadium in order to get his clothes back, per the suit.
The man was later given a court summons for the charge of disorderly conduct on May 18, but a judge later dismissed and sealed the charge, according to the lawsuit.
According to the suit, "he still suffers from episodes of anxiety, anger, loss of sleep, and other impingement of emotional good health" as a result of the incident.
The NYPD, the Mets, and a lawyer for the plaintiff did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.