Thursday, October 3, 2019

Delita Hooks, medical office employee who attacked political blogger Suzannah B. Troy, never held accountable

Dr. Andrew Fagelman

Delita Hooks is a medical office employee of Dr. Andrew Fagelman, who sees patients in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. According to police and Court records, Hooks attacked a patient visiting another doctor. The victim of the attack, Suzannah B. Troy, has been seeking justice for the attack for seven years.

After Troy had filed a police report about the assault, Hooks reportedly filed a cross complaint described as false by Troy. Troy has compared Hook's police report to be as fabricated as the one filed by Jussie Smollett, a network TV drama actor, who falsely reported being the target of an attack.

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Troy attempted to report the false cross complaint filed by Hooks as a crime, but she was turned away by police in the First Precinct, including NYPD supervisor Sgt. Chen, who she recorded in secret audio and tweeted to or mentioned top NYPD brass, including the NYPD police commissioners from Raymond Kelly to William Bratton to James O'Neill.

For Smollett's part in filing a false police report, prosecutors in Cook County, Illinois, made a decision not to prosecute the filing of a false instrument with police, a decision that later triggered the appointment of a former U.S. Attorney to review prosecutorial handling of the Smollett case. No similar decision to review the Office of Manhattan District Attorney's handling of Hooks' filing of a false instrument with police has been made.