Phillip Pantuso, Times Union, Albany, N.Y.

Lloyd, N.Y. — A New Jersey man is suing the town of Lloyd and one of its police officers after the officer slammed him to the ground during a traffic stop last year.

Mohammed Nashat Khaled alleges it rendered him unconscious for days and left him with serious injuries that still negatively affect his life.

The incident is detailed in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Northern District of New York, and partially corroborated by footage from a body-worn camera provided to the Times Union by the man’s lawyer. Khaled alleges that the officer, Erich Funccius, used “unnecessary and excessive force” and committed assault and battery during the encounter, acting with “a knowing, willful, wanton, grossly reckless, unlawful, unreasonabl

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