National Football League employee Craig Clementi is suing New York City over the July 28, 2025, mass shooting that was intended for league headquarters.
Breitbart News reported the shooting, noting that the shooter “claimed to have CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy)” and blamed it on the NFL.
Four people were killed in the attack, including an off-duty NYPD detective who was working security.
The New York Post reported that Clementi was shot in the back and “severely injured” during the incident and claims “the slain off-duty cop’s negligence allowed the gunman to storm the building and carry out the deadly spree.”
The deceased officer was Detective Didarul Islam.
While Islam was lauded by the NYPD, Courthouse News noted that Clementi’s lawsuit claims:
In short…video evidence provides a good faith basis to assert that Detective Islam’s inattentiveness and negligence allowed the gunman to walk across the building’s plaza with a visible assault rifle and into the building; all without the gunman being detected, deterred, confronted, neutralized and without building/lobby occupants being warned of the approaching danger.
Clementi was hospitalized for ten days as a result of the injuries he sustained.
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