{"incident_date":"2014-07-13","received_date":"2014-07-20","close_date":"2016-07-13","borough":"Manhattan","precinct":18,"location_type":"Street/highway","contact_reason":"EDP aided case","contact_outcome":"No arrest made or summons issued","disposition":"Unsubstantiated","evidence_bwc":false,"evidence_video":true,"precinct_command_id":"MTNpct","allegations":[{"fado_type":"Force","allegation":"Nonlethal restraining device","victim_age_incident":45,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Exonerated","id":938909,"officer_id":"KDHM"},{"fado_type":"Force","allegation":"Nonlethal restraining device","victim_age_incident":45,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Exonerated","id":938910,"officer_id":"DW8V"},{"fado_type":"Force","allegation":"Physical force","victim_age_incident":45,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Exonerated","id":938911,"officer_id":"J3JH"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Refusal to obtain medical treatment","victim_age_incident":45,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Unsubstantiated","id":949972,"officer_id":"6FTG"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Refusal to obtain medical treatment","victim_age_incident":45,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Unsubstantiated","id":953666,"officer_id":"CEDX"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23620521-201407332_redactedclosingreport_redacted","type":"closing-report"}],"summary":"On July 13, 2014, at approximately 1:01 a.m., at East 51st Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, [redacted] a taxi driver, flagged down a police officer, PO Darian Shannon of the 18th Precinct, for help with a passenger behaving erratically, [redacted] PO Shannon requested additional officers via radio. Numerous officers of the 18th Precinct, including Lt. Michael Gandolfi, PO James Smith, PO William Walsh, Sgt. Steven Cameron, PO James Gallagher, PO Timothy Tierney, and PO Robert Holzapfel, responded.\n\nLt. Michael Gandolfi grabbed [redacted] brought him onto the ground (Allegation A). Lt. Gandolfi requested that ESU respond. Upon arrival, Det. James Coll and Det. Robert McGee of ESU placed [redacted] into a mesh restraint bag (Allegations B and C). EMS was requested to the scene and multiple EMS units responded, including [redacted] EMTS [redacted] and [redacted] FDNY EMTS [redacted] and FDNY Lt. [redacted] DTS Coll and DTS McGee placed [redacted] on his left side on the stretcher, but as he was brought to the ambulance, [redacted] rolled onto his face. EMT [redacted] requested that Sgt. Cameron rotate [redacted] on the stretcher. Sgt. Cameron responded, \"He needs to go to Bellevue,\" and did not rotate [redacted] as requested (Allegation D). EMT [redacted] then called Lt. [redacted]'s attention. Lt. [redacted] asked another officer standing outside the ambulance, identified by the investigation as PO James Gallagher, to rotate [redacted] onto his back. PO Gallagher did not respond and did not turn [redacted] over (Allegation E). Lt. [redacted] then approached DTS Coll and DTS McGee, who complied with her request. DTS Coll did not prepare a memo book entry about this incident (Allegation F).\n\n[redacted] was transported to [redacted] where he was pronounced dead on arrival (BR 55).","witness_officers":[{"last_name":"Holzapfel","first_name":"Robert","officer_id":"5FCF"},{"last_name":"Panuccio","first_name":"Samuel","officer_id":"Q8JU"},{"last_name":"Shannon","first_name":"Darian","officer_id":"US4D"},{"last_name":"Smith","first_name":"James","officer_id":"G6HD"},{"last_name":"Tierney","first_name":"Timothy","officer_id":"NQGF"},{"last_name":"Walsh","first_name":"William","officer_id":"WZB5"}],"id":201407332,"url":"https://www.50-a.org/complaint/201407332"}