Brooklyn, NY – A federal judge has pared down a lawsuit brought by a pretrial detainee who says prison officers ignored his desperate pleas for help after he was stabbed while trying to watch the BET Awards inside the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.

Nigel Livingston, who entered federal custody in August 2021, claims he was attacked on June 26, 2022, when he left his cell around 8:30 p.m. to watch the televised awards show downstairs. According to his complaint, officers Miguel Mateo and an unidentified female officer were “inside the office bubble talking with inmates” instead of monitoring the housing unit when two prisoners armed with sharp objects ambushed him outside his cell.

Livingston says he was stabbed in the neck and right hand, leaving him in excruciating pain. He use

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