Former Portsmouth police officer Aaron Goodwin is being sued in federal court by a Black man injured in an assault outside a Port City diner last fall.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Concord by Mamadou Dembele, a vice president at Bangor Savings Bank, claims negligence, battery and assault, and seeks monetary damages as a result of being attacked by Goodwin outside Gilley’s Diner on Fleet Street on Nov. 22, 2023.
The lawsuit is considered a diversity action, a legal term for when a federal court has authority to hear a civil lawsuit involving citizens of different states. Dembele lives in New Hampshire, Goodwin in Maine.
