Kawan Andrew Lovelace

Before I was a civil rights attorney in NYC, I was a detective. Before I was a detective, I was an Olympic athlete. And long before any of that, I was a Black man in America who understood, deeply and personally, what it means when the system fails the people it’s supposed to protect.

I spent 8 years as an NYPD detective and 2 years as a Bronx prosecutor. For a decade I worked inside the system. I watched the city defend officers who caused real harm to defenseless people. I watched cases disappear. I learned exactly how the city eliminates its problems, quietly, efficiently, and at the expense of Black and brown communities who had nowhere else to turn.

That’s why I left.

I refused to keep defending a system that protects dishonest officers while ordinary people suffer the consequences. So I switched sides. Now I represent victims of false arrest, police brutality, illegal search and seizure, and civil rights violations across New York City, including Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

Everything I learned inside, how arrest reports get written, where the evidence gets buried, how the NYC Law Department builds its defense against wrongful arrest and police misconduct claims, I now use against them. Every day.

This is personal for me. I am a proud member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, a husband, and a father. I know what it means to have something worth fighting for. Every client who walks through my door represents someone’s father, mother, son, or daughter.

Your life has value.

What happened to you was wrong. And I will fight like it.