{"incident_date":"2014-08-29","received_date":"2014-08-29","close_date":"2015-06-22","borough":"Bronx","precinct":44,"location_type":"Street/highway","contact_reason":"PD suspected C/V of violation/crime - street","contact_outcome":"No arrest made or summons issued","disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","evidence_bwc":false,"evidence_video":false,"precinct_command_id":"44pct","allegations":[{"fado_type":"Force","allegation":"Physical force","victim_age_incident":35,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Black","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","id":912913,"officer_id":"C2KT"}],"penalties":[{"ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","apu_trial_ccrb_recommended_penalty":"Forfeit vacation 8 days","apu_case_status":"Closed: Not guilty after trial-PC Approved","apu_closing_date":"2016-07-28","nypd_disposition":"APU Not guilty","officer_id":"C2KT"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23835967-201408921_redactedclosingreport_redacted","type":"closing-report"}],"summary":"On August 29, 2014 at approximately 7:50 a.m., PO Michael Smith and PO Michele Butera, of the 44th Precinct, responded to a radio run of a stolen cell phone and stopped [redacted] who fit the description of the perpetrator of the stolen cell phone as he was holding a walker and wearing blue jeans and a hooded sweatshirt. [redacted] was walking to work when she observed, PO Smith and PO Butera struggling on the ground with [redacted] trying to place him in handcuffs on Morris Avenue between East 171st Street and East 172nd Street in the Bronx. [redacted] observed PO Smith punch [redacted] in the face two to three times (Allegation A) and began taking photographs. PO Smith then told [redacted] that [redacted] had stolen a cell phone. [redacted] called the CCRB and filed the complaint as a complainant/witness. She was unaware of the identities of the officers or the civilian involved in the altercation she observed. Through investigation, the victim was identified as [redacted] was taken to the hospital as an Emotionally Disturbed Person. [redacted] was not arrested or summonsed.","witness_officers":[{"last_name":"Butera","first_name":"Michele","officer_id":"C27B"}],"id":201408921,"updated_date":"2025-10-02T13:04:00.971Z","url":"https://www.50-a.org/complaint/201408921"}