The family of NY police officer Christopher Ridley filed a $90 million lawsuit against the white officer who killed him

The family of a black NY police officer is suing a white officer and the district attorney, for covering up the January 25, 2008 killing of their loved one.

 White Police officer Frank Oliveri is being accused by the family of black officer, Christopher Ridley, of shooting Ridley at point-blank range, and then hiding his badge in order to cover up his crime.

In a $90 million civil rights lawsuit that was filed by Ridley’s family, they accused Oliveri of intentionally killing Ridley by putting a gun to his head shooting him once above the left eye killing him “execution-style.”

The family also accused Westchester’s District Attorney Janet DiFiore of covering up the incident to advance her political career, stating DiFiore conspired with the county coroner to hide autopsy results, “because it would prove the fatal, albeit unnecessary point blank gunshot to Officer Ridley’s forehead.”

 The lawsuit also alleged she enlisted the ‘cooperation’ of her co-defendants to hide from Officer Ridley’s father the circumstances under which his son had been executed.”

A grand jury cleared Oliveri of murdering Ridley, 23, who was attempting to arrest an assault suspect in downtown White Plains, NY when he was killed.

Witnesses and surveillance videos showed Ridley did not identify himself as a police officer and did not drop his gun when the officers ordered him to do so.

The lawsuit states that after Oliveri killed Ridley, and then took the officer’s badge and put it in Ridley’s car claiming that Ridley failed to “identify himself as a police officer.”

Ridley’s family alleged that police deliberately ignored witnesses whose accounts would have support criminal charges.

Ridley killed when he turned towards the officers with his gun in his hand.