Anthony Hall, the former head of the city’s anti-violence initiative Pathways to Peace, has been sentenced to two years in prison.
That comes after Hall pleaded guilty last month to assaulting a police officer.
The sentence stems from an incident in January in which Rochester police responded to a domestic dispute on East Main Street. Hall, in body-worn camera footage, can be seen arguing with officers and then shoving one before being tackled to the ground.
One officer was injured during that arrest. On Thursday, that officer, Jeffrey Mirt, filed a lawsuit against Hall in State Supreme Court. It claims that during the struggle to arrest Hall, he broke his thumb and a bone in his finger.
Mirt, who joined the department in 2022, is suing Hall for damages including loss of overtime, severe permanent injuries, and extreme emotional distress.
Hall is a former leader of Pathways to Peace, a city of Rochester gang intervention and antiviolence initiative, a position he held before leaving to head up the Community Resource Collaborative in 2023.
On Monday he also was sentenced to a concurrent prison term for grand larceny. Hall had admitted to stealing from the Coalition of Northeast Associations between 2018 and 2019.
