Cop Costs Taxpayers $4 Million for Blinding Innocent Man, Gets Promoted



You may have seen in the news, a federal jury in Michigan just awarded 4 million dollars to a man who got his eyeball squished like a grape, after being sucker-punched by a police officer for no reason. Daniel Reiff was on his way to a roofing job. He and his coworker, Ryan, stopped at Ryan’s house to get some tools. As they walked through the neighborhood, a neighbor got suspicious and called the police on a non-emergency number, reporting that she didn’t recognize two “younger looking kids.” The Clinton Township police apparently didn’t have much going on that day, so they sent the cavalry – 8 police cruisers in total, who scrambled to the scene, even speeding and weaving through oncoming traffic, as if they were headed to a bank robbery. When Daniel saw this, having had prior bad experiences with the police, he left Ryan’s house and headed towards his bus stop. But Officer Broc Setty spotted him, got out of his car and chased him down, whooping a battle cry, as if he was a Viking about to murder some monks at a monastery. And actually Officer Setty wasn’t all that far off. When he caught up to Daniel, he sucker-punched him in the face, which ended up squishing Daniel’s eyeball like a grape, permanently blinding him.

Details (incl. court docs): https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025/12/18/cop-costs-taxpayers-4-million-for-blinding-innocent-man-gets-promoted/

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Media Report: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/12/15/jury-awards-man-4m-after-macomb-county-police-officer-punches-disfigures-him/

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20 thoughts on “Cop Costs Taxpayers $4 Million for Blinding Innocent Man, Gets Promoted”

  1. Would you trade one of your eyeballs for $4 Million?
    Details (incl. court docs): https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025/12/18/cop-costs-taxpayers-4-million-for-blinding-innocent-man-gets-promoted/
    Attorney Jon Marko: https://www.markolaw.com
    Clinton Township Michigan: https://www.clintontownship.com
    Media Report: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2025/12/15/jury-awards-man-4m-after-macomb-county-police-officer-punches-disfigures-him/

  2. If you go to the hospital for “drugs” your eye will ACTUALLY get treated by the hospital. If you go to the jail chances are the medic will give you 2 ibuprofen for your popped eye so they can hide their cops actions.

  3. With all good intention, $4 million ain't nothing to sneeze at but what I take exception with is that this dirty cop got a promotion. The cop doing this dirty work didn't have to lose any money; he got promoted! That's what the police department and all the rest of the dirty cops see in all of this. Be dirty and get promoted, be awarded and be put up on a pedestal for all the dirty cops can see.

  4. The POS police department absolutely does NOT care what the taxpayers think. They have the facebook page locked down as tight as you can imagine…BUT I am writing the chief an email and everyone else should do the same because he has been at this pd for over the last 22 or 23 years. he IS part of the problem!!! ACAB!!! ACAB!!! ACAB!!!

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