The Division of Human Rights complaint form is available at the below link. You may use this form to file and submit your complaint online.Our team has experience gathering and interpreting all reports and police documents, which will help us successfully litigate your claim. Their phone number rings off the hook until they hang up on you. In New York, a private person or a police officer commits the tort of false imprisonment or false arrest when they detain someone without legal authority. The District Court Trial Bureau prosecutes all misdemeanor cases (i.e. Continuing to detain him after that would be false imprisonment. Tyrone Phifer, 63, of Hempstead, says he was humiliated and afraid during his December 2021 obstruction of governmental administration arrest. There are three degrees of unlawful fleeing from a police officer. Man sues police for wrongful arrest on Long Island.