# @newshouse on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3THCXUP-sV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11092170-newshouse-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-02-13T19:00:23.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The NewsHouse (@NewsHouse) — https://gondola.cc/NewsHouse

## Caption

Deshane Levere was driving through an intersection at 3 a.m. on a summer night when, out of nowhere, a Syracuse Police cruiser slammed into her vehicle. 
The officer, Eric Gerace, was on his way to an emergency call that night in 2013 and had run a red light. He didn’t have his sirens or lights on.
More than a decade later, Levere, 52, still suffers debilitating back pain. Neither pain medications nor strenuous physical therapy can provide much relief. 
After a drawn-out court battle with Syracuse Police, Levere’s case was tossed on appeal, leaving her with little recourse to offset the cost of a life-altering injury. The officer faced no discipline for the crash.
The USA TODAY Network-New York, in partnership with the Newhouse School (newhousesu) and with support from Central Current (centralcurrent), investigated for the first time a 10-year span of police vehicle crashes in Syracuse and across the state. Our early data analysis shows that from 2013 to 2022, hundreds of collisions involving law enforcement vehicles on Syracuse roads have exacted a heavy human and societal toll.

🔗 Click the link in our bio to read the investigation. 
✍: David Robinson 
📹: Videos by Tina MacIntyre-Yee (tinayee23); compiled by Kyle Slagle (vonschlagel) and Marili Vaca (marili.photography)

#USATodayNetworkNewYork #SyracuseUniversity #CentralCurrent #NewYork #NY #Syracuse #SyracuseNY

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