{"active":false,"first_name":"Raymond","last_name":"Medina","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"VED Q"},"shield_no":2446,"taxid":"876721","complaint_ids":[200105873,9103325,9103364,8800933,8701020,8302779],"appt_date":"1982-01-25","lawsuits":[{"name":"Brownridge, Samuel vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-08-18","disposition_date":"2022-01-03","payout_amount":13000000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"21CV04603","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","summary":"On March 7, 1994, evening, Garfield Brown murdered Darryle Adams in St. Albans, Queens – Garfield Brown was accompanied by a man in a wheelchair with two other men. The murder spurred an investigation by the New York City Police Department – it was headed by Detective Medina. Two days after the shooting, Detective Medina located and interviewed Kevin Boatwright – right before Adams’ murder, Boatwright had been separately accosted by the same group, but his life was spared. Boatwright allegedly claimed he saw the Adams shooting from a hiding spot behind a car as he was fleeing – he, however, did not call the police. Instead, two days after Adams’ murder, Boatwright offered a description of the shooter to Defendant Medina that did not resemble Mr. Brownridge – he described the shooter as in his mid-20s with a short fade haircut with shaved sides, whereas Mr. Brownridge was a teenager with a medium length afro. Detective Medina wrote this description down. On March 9, 1994, Defendant Medina then showed Boatwright two separate photo arrays – each one consisted of large, clear, color photographs of six suspects. Boatwright identified a man named Collin Stewart as the shooter – this matched the description Boatwright initially gave but looked nothing like Mr. Brownridge. Despite being an obvious piece of Brady material, Detective Medina withheld the Stewart Photo-Array picture from the defense and the prosecution. When Stewart was ultimately cleared of wrongdoing, a different detective drafted a DD-5 note voiding the arrest of Collin Stewart – Detective Medina withheld this from both the prosecution and the defense as well. Nobody saw the Stewart Photo-Array Picture for the next 25 years. On a similar note, in a separate array, Boatwright identified a man named Dwayne Dunn as the shooter’s accomplice in the wheelchair – he was subsequently cleared during the investigation and similarly did not resemble the actual accomplice, Darren Lee. Similarly, his arrest was voided by a different detective, but the jury never got to hear Dunn’s name or see his photograph because Detective Medina buried it. On March 13, 1994, Mr. Brownridge’s name entered Detective Medina’s investigation through means not documented and not disclosed to the defense – by March 14, 1994, Detective Medina knew that Boatwright had misidentified the men. Detective Medina showed Boatwright a photo array with Mr. Brownridge’s photograph included and through suggestive techniques, had Boatwright identify Samuel Brownridge as the shooter. Detective Medina’s use of suggestiveness also extended to a second witness, Quintin Hagood. Hagood was at a friend’s house near the location of the shooting and was first interviewed by Detective Medina on March 13, 1994. Hagood claimed that he saw some men run past him after the shooting – on  March 14, however, Detective Medina leveraged Boatwright into influencing Hagood’s memory of what he observed, secured Hagood’s appearance at a line up, and pressured Hagood to change his initial statement to now claim that he actually saw the shooting – Hagood sword, under oath, that he did not want to do so because he did not think Brownridge was the shooter. Succumbing to the pressure, at 10 pm, Hagood drafted a handwritten statement to Detective Medina stating that he previously lied to the police and did see Mr. Brownridge. The District Attorney’s Office knew that it was factually impossible, from the facts, for Hagood to have actually observed the shooting from the vantage point provided in his statements.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23689836-2022_brownridge_21cv04603","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60185204/brownridge-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"socials":[{"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/raymond-medina-32047440","type":"linkedin"}],"news":[{"url":"https://gothamist.com/news/most-expensive-nypd-lawsuits-2021-2022","title":"Here are the most expensive NYPD lawsuits from this year","source":"Gothamist","date":"2022-09-02"}],"id":"5WPY","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/5WPY"}