{"incident_date":"2017-05-18","received_date":"2017-06-15","close_date":"2018-02-01","borough":"Bronx","precinct":45,"location_type":"Street/highway","contact_reason":"Other violation of VTL","contact_outcome":"Other VTL violation summons issued","disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","evidence_bwc":false,"evidence_video":true,"precinct_command_id":"45pct","allegations":[{"fado_type":"Discourtesy","allegation":"Word","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","id":988572,"officer_id":"37N3"},{"fado_type":"Discourtesy","allegation":"Word","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Guilty","id":988573,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Threat of force (verbal or physical)","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Guilty","id":988574,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Threat of force (verbal or physical)","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","id":988575,"officer_id":"37N3"},{"fado_type":"Force","allegation":"Gun Pointed","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Not guilty","id":991047,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Seizure of property","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Guilty","id":999902,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Vehicle search","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Not guilty","id":999904,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Threat of summons","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Not guilty","id":999906,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Threat to damage/seize property","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Unsubstantiated","id":999967,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Other","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","id":999972,"officer_id":"37N3"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Other","victim_age_incident":24,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Guilty","id":999975,"officer_id":"HLP7"},{"fado_type":"Abuse of Authority","allegation":"Refusal to provide name/shield number","victim_age_incident":23,"victim_gender":"Male","victim_ethnicity":"Hispanic","ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","nypd_disposition":"APU Not guilty","id":1005214,"officer_id":"HLP7"}],"penalties":[{"ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","apu_trial_ccrb_recommended_penalty":"Forfeit vacation 20 days","apu_trial_recommended_penalty":"Forfeit vacation 20 days","apu_case_status":"Closed: Guilty after trial-PC Approved","apu_closing_date":"2019-11-26","nypd_penalty":"Forfeit vacation 20 days","nypd_disposition":"APU Guilty","officer_id":"37N3"},{"ccrb_disposition":"Substantiated (Charges)","apu_trial_ccrb_recommended_penalty":"Dismissal Probation","apu_trial_recommended_penalty":"Forfeit vacation 25 days","apu_case_status":"Closed: Guilty after trial-PC Approved","apu_closing_date":"2019-11-26","nypd_penalty":"Forfeit vacation 25 days","officer_id":"HLP7"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23380736-201704889_redactedclosingreport_redacted","type":"closing-report"}],"summary":"On May 18, 2017, [redacted] was driving his car on the Bruckner Expressway with [redacted] in the passenger seat. PO Robert Rodriguez and PO Thomas Nicoletti pulled over [redacted] for street racing and multiple VTL violations. PO Rodriguez pointed his gun at [redacted] and [redacted] and threatened to shoot them (Allegation A: Force, [redacted]) PO Nicoletti told PO Rodriguez to shoot them in the back of the head if they got out of control (Allegation C: Abuse of authority, [redacted]). PO Rodriguez and PO Nicoletti spoke discourteously to [redacted] and [redacted] (Allegations D and E: Discourtesy, [redacted]). PO Rodriguez entered the back seat of [redacted]'s vehicle (Allegation F: Abuse of authority, substantiated). PO Rodriguez then directed [redacted] to drive off of the highway while PO Nicoletti followed in the patrol car (Allegations G and H: Abuse of authority, [redacted]). PO Rodriguez threatened to follow [redacted] in the future until he could give him summonses (Allegation I: Abuse of Authority, [redacted]). [redacted] requested PO Rodriguez's name and PO Rodriguez failed to provide it (Allegation J: Abuse of Authority, [redacted]). PO Rodriguez told [redacted] to call a tow truck as he was not permitted to have his car anymore (Allegation K: Abuse of Authority, [redacted]). PO Rodriguez told the tow truck driver to take [redacted]'s vehicle and to do whatever he wanted with it, and suggested ways to damage it (Allegation L: Abuse of Authority, [redacted]).\n\nThe officers did not arrest [redacted] or [redacted] but issued [redacted] ten summonses.","id":201704889,"updated_date":"2025-10-02T13:04:00.971Z","url":"https://www.50-a.org/complaint/201704889"}