{"incident_date":"2008-04-08","received_date":"2008-04-16","close_date":"2009-10-27","borough":"Manhattan","precinct":13,"location_type":"Subway station/train","contact_reason":"PD suspected C/V of violation/crime - subway","contact_outcome":"Arrest - other violation/crime","disposition":"Exonerated","evidence_bwc":false,"evidence_video":false,"precinct_command_id":"13pct","allegations":[{"fado_type":"Discourtesy","allegation":"Word","victim_age_incident":39,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Exonerated","id":569433,"officer_id":"KZU9"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28066554-200805475-redactedclosingreport-redacted/","type":"closing-report"}],"summary":"At approximately 9:25AM on April 8, 2008, [redacted] was entering the 14th Street/Union Square subway station at 15th Street and Park Avenue South in Manhattan when she observed five officers (four in-uniform, one in plainclothes) surrounding a Black male who was about 6'2\" tall and weighed over 160 pounds. [redacted] stated in her original complaint that [redacted] was clean-shaven and lacked facial hair. The male, identified by the CCRB as [redacted] appeared to be restrained. [redacted] believed he was passive and posed no threat.\n\nOne of the uniformed officers, identified by the CCRB as PO Pedro Reyes, was handling a German shepherd that was barking at [redacted] from about two feet away. [redacted] did not hear PO Reyes issue the canine any commands, and felt that this gave the canine permission to intimidate [redacted] The officer in plainclothes, identified by the CCRB as PO Raymond Low, was yelling at [redacted] and stated, \"I fucking told you I was a police officer.\" [redacted] described PO Low as a White male, about 5'9\" tall and weighing approximately 150 pounds.\n\nThe officers escorted [redacted] into a police substation. [redacted] followed the officers but did not interact with any of them. She could see the officers surrounding [redacted] as he sat passively in a chair, but could not hear what was being said. She could see that the canine continued to bark at [redacted] A few minutes elapsed and [redacted] was led away.\n\nIn her original letter to the CCRB, [redacted] indicated that she was filing her complaint against \"the use of a Canine Unit by officers to intimidate a (passive) person in custody.\" In her description of this incident in her letter, she stated that an officer, identified as PO Low by the CCRB, used \"obscenities\" towards [redacted] but she did not indicate what these obscenities were.","witness_officers":[{"last_name":"Hidalgo","first_name":"Michaelangelo","officer_id":"CENZ"},{"last_name":"Reyes","first_name":"Pedro","officer_id":"CUTH"}],"id":200805475,"url":"https://www.50-a.org/complaint/200805475"}