He mis-spelled his own doom.
A Brooklyn man who filed an NYPD police brutality suit provided phony witnesses — complete with written statements that tipped his hand by repeating the same bone-head spelling errors he’d put in his own statement, court papers reveal.
Brooklyn federal court judge Robert Levy tossed Alexander Riley’s 2008 brutality case Monday after finding that he and his girlfriend likely convinced pals to back up his story — even though they were nowhere near the alleged attack.
The conspirators used the term “waste band” instead of “waist band” and also opted for “walkey-talkey” instead of “walkie-talkie,” court papers state.
To make matters worse, one of the witnesses somehow misspelled both her first and last names on her own bogus “statement,” according to court papers.
“The striking similarities in the statements produced by the plaintiff strongly suggest that the statements were concerted and coordinated,” city lawyers argued.
Riley claims that he had just gotten a haircut in Coney Island when cops pulled him out of his car and smashed him in the back of the head with a police radio before booking him on trumped-up charges that were later dismissed.
But investigators smelled something fishy when notarized statements from “witnesses” Deirdre Colon and Tremaine Jernigan contained the same weird spellings as Riley’s officials statement.
Riley and his girlfriend even managed to botch Colon’s first and last names on the statement she signed off on, court papers state.
Scared by the prospect of taking the stand, Colon later admitted that she never even looked at the statement submitted in her name and that she only agreed to take part in the scheme because she didn’t like cops and police brutality.
Investigators also found texts between Colon and Riley that revealed the dopey deception.
“U know when i agreed to this i thought it was explained i wouldn’t have to testify or have involvement in depositions,” she wrote to the couple. “I honestly don’t feel comfortable with where its headed…i shoudve though it through before I agreed.”
Riley tried to argue that the witnesses — all close friends of his beau — just happened to be at the scene of the alleged NYPD attack. “No reasonable person would believe that this was a pure coincidence,” Levy wrote.
The jurist junked Riley’s five-year old lawsuit after the witness fiasco came to light.
Riley claimed that he had no idea that Colon had made up the statement – but Levy disagreed. “The obvious inference, based on the evidence presented, is that he did,” he wrote.
“I have considered less severe sanctions, but I find dismissal the one best tailored to address and deter this type of misconduct.”
Riley’s attorney, Anthony Omodile, did not return a call for comment.