The family jewels of a GOP financial operative came front and center in a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, as jurors tasked with determining whether or not he was kneed in the groin by a top Port Authority cop were forced to study enlarged snaps of his genitalia.
New York RNC finance chair Arcadio Casillas smiled uncomfortably as photos of his mangled member and testes were projected for the packed courtroom.
Casillas, who helped elect Donald Trump, says he was pummeled by Port Authority Deputy Inspector John Fitzpatrick in Jan. 2017 after a night out celebrating his candidate’s electoral victory at the elite Union League Club.
The panel of eight, mostly-millennial jurors had trouble looking at the large, colorful, and intimate images of the 70-year-old, taken from a variety of angles. Many averted their eyes, while others sat, arms crossed, as they surveilled his maimed manhood.
“Did your scrotum appear that way prior to Jan. 9, 2017?” Casillas was asked by prosecutor Rachel Ehrhardt.
“Absolutely not,” he replied.
A young girl inexplicably sat in the gallery as the photographs were shown, playing tic-tac-toe with an older woman on a legal pad. It’s not clear if she held any relation to Casillas or Fitzpatrick.
Casillas Wednesday took the stand to recount how Fitzpatrick cut off his cab with his official vehicle and then allegedly attacked him.
“I just kept asking what this was about, and the next thing, I got a knee, I believe his right knee, to my scrotum,” the republican operative testified. “It was very hard, very fast, and I went down.”
Casillas has a pending $100 million lawsuit against Fitzpatrick and the Port Authority.
Fitzpatrick, who stands charged with assault, harassment, and attempted assault, faces up to a year behind bars if convicted.