SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco and six San Francisco Police Department officers face illegal search and seizure and false imprisonment accusations in the San Francisco County Superior Court.
According to a lawsuit filed on March 15, plaintiff Maya Zubkovskaya received upsetting medical news on February 14, 2020. The counselor from the clinic who called her with the news also called the San Francisco PD alleging that Zubkovskaya was so upset that she was a danger to her own life.
Despite the plaintiff not consenting to the officers entering her apartment, denying that she intended to take her own life and not consenting to being transported to a hospital, Zubkovskaya was handcuffed without given the option to comply voluntarily, the suit says. The officers forced the plaintiff onto the ground, according to the suit, injuring her through their use of force when she resisted because she did not consent to being transported to a hospital.
There were several indicators that the plaintiff was not suicidal at all, and that her suicidal remarks were falsified or misconstrued by the counselor who made the call, the suit says.
Zubkovskaya was quickly discharged from the hospital's psychiatric ward after evaluations further found no reason to believe she was suffering from suicidal tendencies or a mental disorder, and was rather just extremely sad about the medical news she had received earlier in the day, the suit says.
The officers are charged with illegal search and seizure, false imprisonment, excessive force, assault, battery and negligence.
Zubkovskaya and co-plaintiff Douglas Carlson are representing themselves. The two share an apartment, and Carlson is suing over the S.F. PD's allegedly illegal entry into it.