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A 54-year-old Brooklyn grandmother who was woken by the sound of police banging on her apartment door late one night plans to sue the city after she says officers forced her to stay inside the apartment for 16 hours.
Officers were looking for Rolinda Walls’ daughter on Oct. 21 when they showed up at the Dumont Avenue apartment around 11 p.m., Walls said. The daughter they were looking for was not there.
