A man’s claim that he was arrested without cause and roughed up by court officers for refusing to end a cell phone call as he waited to get through security at a Brooklyn court house should go forward, a federal judge has determined.

Triable issues of facts exist about Getro Milfort’s claims of false arrest, false imprisonment and excessive force in a June 18, 2010, incident at the Civil Court building at 141 Livingston St., Eastern District William Kuntz II concluded in Milfort v. Prevete, 10-cv-4467.

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