Rochester police officer sues man over injury

A Rochester police officer is suing the man who caused an injury to the officer when the man was being arrested.

Officer Jeffrey Mirt is suing Anthony Hall for negligence and assault and battery. Mirt is represented by attorney Jacob R. Ark.

Just after noon on Jan. 2, Mirt and other officers responded to a home on East Main Street for a report of family trouble and a trespassing violation, according to the complaint.

Mirt and other officers told Hall to leave the area, but he refused, according to the complaint.

Hall refused and became “hostile and violent,” the suit claims.

“As a direct result of the defendant’s intentional, reckless, and/or negligent conduct, the defendant came into bodily contact with the plaintiff, and other members of the Rochester Police Department, causing the plaintiff to fall to the ground, and otherwise sustain physical injury,” according to the complaint filed Thursday in state Supreme Court.

Mirt suffered a broken right thumb and a broken bone in that hand.

Mirt “missed a substantial amount of work, was forfeited from working overtime he was otherwise qualified to work, and has incurred past and continuing medical expenses,” according to the suit.

Hall was charged with second-degree assault. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years in prison.

Hall is the former director of the city’s Pathways to Peace program. He has been a candidate for Rochester City Council and the Rochester City School District Board of Education.

Previously he pleaded guilty to a grand larceny charge for stealing more than $1,000 from the Coalition of North East Associations, a neighborhood association.

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