Victim of Fort Lee police van debacle speaks out

Kevin Jun says he still suffers from post-traumatic stress



Nearly three years after being locked up, forgotten and left overnight in a New Jersey police van in freezing temperatures, one of the victims is speaking out, saying he still suffers from post-traumatic stress, including fear of cramped spaces and a distrust of police officers. Really, can you blame him?

Fort Lee man haunted by 15 hours he spent locked in police van

20-year-old Kevin Jun was one of five teens (he was 17 at the time) who were rounded up at a party in March 2011 by Fort Lee police officers, taken to the station, then forgotten and left locked outside in a police van for fifteen hours. They were stuck there with no food or water, no bathroom and no way to call out. As temperatures dipped into the 20s, Jun says he was only wearing a t-shirt.

Cops settle lawsuit with teens left overnight in police van

Three teens will each receive $120,000 under a settlement reached with Fort Lee Police Department



Remember those guys in New Jersey who got locked up in a police van, forgotten and left overnight in the freezing cold? Three of those teens filed a lawsuit against the Fort Lee Police Department and over a dozen officers, and will receive $120,000 each under a settlement reached with the department.

3 boys locked in Fort Lee police van overnight will split $360,000

Adam Kim, Liam Eisenberg and Kevin Jun were among over dozen teens who were rounded up and placed in a police van when cops broke up a house party in March 2011. According to their complaint, five remained in the van while officers took the others into the station... and never came back. The five teens, who were mostly Asian, were left behind were locked in overnight. They also allege that the cops called them racial epithets.

Somebody f*%ked up. So it wasn't a big surprise when these guys sued, alleging that the officers intentionally inflicted emotional distress, were negligent and showed racial bias.

Third teen sues over 15-hour police van lockup

Revisiting this case again... Remember that story from a couple of years back about a group of New Jersey teens who were rounded up by cops at a house party, forgotten, and left locked in a van outside police headquarters overnight? You bet your ass that lawsuits were filed. And now, a third teenager has added a lawsuit to the pile: Teen locked overnight in police van sues Fort Lee.

Kevin Jun was one of five teens who were rounded up at a Fort Lee house party, brought to police headquarters in the back of a police van, and promptly forgotten about and left in there for fifteen hours -- locked in the vehicle without food, water, bathroom facilities or warm clothing. Whoops.

Jun has filed a lawsuit against the Fort Lee Police Department and about a dozen officers, alleging that his civil rights were violated when he was falsely arrested, unlawfully detained and left to rot in that police van. On top of that, cops at the scene apparently used racial slurs to refer to the Asian Americans.

Teen sues police after being left locked in van overnight

Remember that story from a couple of years back about a group of New Jersey teens who were rounded up by cops at a house party and left locked in a van outside police headquarters overnight? One the teens has a filed a lawsuit: Teen suing Fort Lee police after being left in van for 15 hours without food, water.

Adam Kim, who was 17 at the time of the incident, was detained inside a police van for nearly 15 hours without food or water after officers forgot about him and four other teenagers. The lawsuit, which names the Fort Lee Police Department, the police chief and a dozen members of the force, claims the officers who arrested Kim violated his civil rights. Not least when they called him and his friends "chinks":