POL: MY CELL HELL

Former Assemblyman Keith Wright was wronged, according to his $10 million lawsuit against the city.

The Harlem Democrat, 66, claims he was “mentally devastated” after being “falsely” arrested last year for leaving the scene of an accident and that he was threatened while spending a day in jail.

“My arrest and incarcerations embarrassed and humiliated me to such a degree that I was grossly ashamed and depressed,” he says in the Manhattan Supreme Court suit.

Wright (left), who is the chair of the Manhattan Democratic Party, was arrested Sept. 16, accused of leaving the scene after hitting an e-bike rider with his car door at West 138th Street and Fifth Avenue in Harlem weeks earlier. Charges were dropped in November.

He denied wrongdoing, saying he spent more than 40 minutes at the scene with the injured rider after the Aug. 26 accident.

The e-bike rider was speeding, had no headlamp or flashing lights, didn’t call 911 himself and refused help at the scene, Wright alleges in the court papers filed against the city and NYPD Detective Lamont Deadrick, who arrested him.

Threats & taunts

Wright claims he feared for his life while locked up for more than 24 hours in a cell at Manhattan Criminal Court, where he endured “threats of physical violence by other incarcerated individuals” and “high levels of humiliation.”

Other inmates “started calling him ‘pops,’ ‘old man,’ ‘grandpa,’ and were trying to intimidate him. That’s frightening,” his lawyer, Kenneth Ramseur, told The Post. “And, of course, not to mention how filthy it was.”

Wright was “so mentally devastated and embarrassed by his arrest that he was somewhat dysfunctional,” court papers claim.

Wright faced criticism in 2019 for serving as a party leader while also working as a lobbyist. He is the government-relations group director at the high-powered firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron.

He left the Assembly in 2016 after an unsuccessful bid to succeed Rep. Charlie Rangel.

Wright wants a court to let him file a late notice of claim in his lawsuit, saying emotional problems brought on by his brush with the criminal-justice system prevented him from suing earlier.

“I felt I had failed my community, my family, my constituents and my neighbors,” he said in legal papers.

“Whenever I discussed my arrest and incarceration, I had difficulty sleeping, eating and concentrating on matters of importance,” he added. “This shame and depression took over my life and still affects me.”