{"active":false,"first_name":"Brian","last_name":"Ramirez","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"PO","command":{"command":"PBMNCRT","assignment_date":"2024-12-23","id":"770"},"shield_no":22014,"ended_date":"2025-03-03","taxid":"946143","complaint_ids":[202501159,202406509,202402053,202311890,202308806,202308894,202003377,202002456,202000462,201909470,201708473,201609168,201602669,201508316,201214416,201212460,200906638],"command_history":[{"command":"PBBN SU PST"},{"command":"073 PCT","id":"73pct"},{"command":"032 PCT","id":"32pct"}],"appt_date":"2008-01-07","lawsuits":[{"name":"Terry, Tony vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2026-05-28","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"506016/2026","court":"Supreme Court - Kings"},{"name":"Melton, Darryl vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-11-25","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"163183/2025","court":"Supreme Court - New York"},{"name":"Jeffrey, Zaydan & Baldwin, Amir vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-08-05","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"816458/2025E","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx"},{"name":"Coggins, Gregory, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2024-01-11","disposition_date":"2024-06-24","payout_amount":50000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"150300/2024","court":"Supreme Court - New York","summary":"On September 5, 2023, Plaintiff was stopped, searched, grabbed, assaulted, battered, and detained in an aggressive and excessive manner by Defendant Officer Brian Ramirez and Defendant Officers John Does 1-10. Plaintiff was subsequently arraigned and falsely and maliciously prosecuted with committing a crime. Plaintiff was detained for over 24 hours.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=V8jb02ZId6MIHPCV4EicrA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Mclean, Jhai vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2023-12-07","disposition_date":"2024-06-13","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"161797/2023","court":"Supreme Court - New York","summary":"On or about September 22, 2023, plaintiff was stopped, touched, grabbed, handcuffed, assaulted, battered, seized and arrested in an excessive manner and with excessive force by the defendants.  He was then falsely accused by the defendants of having committed a crime.  The defendants took him to a police station and arrested him.  He was questioned, fingerprinted and photographed there and held on various criminal charges at various police stations, correctional facilities and at the Courthouse in New York City.  Defendants caused a criminal action to be commenced against the plaintiff, which was later dismissed.  While in the custody of the defendants, plaintiff was intentionally touched, pushed, assaulted, battered, violated, searched, humiliated, photographed and handcuffed by the defendants as well as battered in and about his head, neck, back, body and limbs in an excessive manner and with excessive force.  As a result of these acts, plaintiff sustained serious, severe, painful and permanent bodily injuries so that he was rendered sick, sore, lame and disabled.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=3Xg5nHHYYxFEY0FxqD/Y_PLUS_A==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Burgess, Laquasia, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2023-05-09","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"512920/2023","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On or about February 19, 2022, when plaintiffs were siding inside their family’s car police officers pulled into the parking lot within a few minutes of the plaintiffs’ arrival and immediately approached the plaintiffs asking for identification. When plaintiffs asked for the reason why officers were asking for identification, police officers proceeded to forcibly remove the plaintiffs from the vehicle. The officers tightly handcuffed the plaintiffs and searched the car. Nothing illegal as found. The officers found an unopened Bombay Gin in the backseat that belongs to a backseat seated member. Nonetheless, the officers transported the plaintiffs to the precinct and seized the vehicle. Police accused the plaintiffs for drinking an alcoholic beverage or was in possession of an open container in his car. The prosecutors declined to prosecute some plaintiffs. Those plaintiffs that are prosecuted are dismissed from the charges. After the release, plaintiffs asked the police to release their seized properties to them. But the police officers refused to release plaintiff’s properties, including but not limited to the cell phones, cell phone accessories, Bombay Gin, clothes, credit card, and wallets. The officers also refused to release plaintiffs’ car to him until four months later.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=RPfCc5t_PLUS_tsLotDHqzFvUMQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Christian, Luis vs P.O. Ramirez, Brian, et al.","start_date":"2023-03-09","disposition_date":"2023-08-01","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"530577/2022","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On May 16, 2021, at approximately 3:20 a.m., Plaintiff Luis Christian was present in the vicinity of 123 Nostrand Avenue in Kings County, when the Defendant NYPD Police Officers arrested Plaintiff without probable cause. Defendant Officers tackled Plaintiff to the ground as Plaintiff was walking home from a birthday party, pinned Plaintiff's arms behind his back and put tight handcuffs on his wrist. Plaintiff was transported to the 79th Precinct, where he was illegally detained, searched, and interrogated by Defendant Officers. Defendant Officers submitted false information to the Kings County District Attorney's Office in which they accused Plaintiff of possessing a firearm without a license. Plaintiff spent six days on Rikers Island awaiting trial.\n\nPlaintiff brings claims of: unlawful stop, question and search, unlawful seizure and deprivation of liberty, false imprisonment, excessive force, failure to intervene, denial of due process, and malicious prosecution.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=aUL3s_PLUS_wUpEl98FMK9zSZfQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Bartholomew, Lavon vs City of Ny","start_date":"2021-08-12","disposition_date":"2023-05-02","payout_amount":465000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"21CV03729","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","summary":"On April 5, 2020 at 5:11 pm Plaintiffs Shaundell Hennegan (SH), Tysean Hennegan, J'chad Boyce and Curtis Miller were standing in the street. Plaintiff Miller was in the passenger seat of a car, and when POs Brian Ramirez and Justin Vasquez yelled at the Plaintiffs for not social distancing, SH got into the driver's seat. PO Ramirez demanded to see SH's DL, which was provided. PO Vasquez demanded to see Miller's ID; Miller refused since he was not doing anything. Miller began recording the interaction with his cell, and PO Vasquez slapped it out of his hand and began hitting Miller. SH then began recording, and the officers threw him to the ground and PO Ramirez began striking him with a bit stick. Sgts Darren Caranella, and Troy Peacock and POs Sean Slowski, and Christopher Read pinned SH to the ground, kneeing and striking him as they placed handcuffs on him. Plaintiff Boyce began recording the assaults, and POs Ramirez, Vasquez began beating him. POs Charles Ji, Michael John, Stephen Rice, Sgt Troy Peacock, and Lts Alexander Bobo and Michael Parscale joined in the assault as they arrived. PO Stephen Rice tased Boyce for several seconds before handcuffing him. Boyce, SH, and Miller were taken to the 073 Precinct, where they were taunted by PO Vasquez and Ramirez. Ramirez chocked Miller in the precinct. SH and Miller were released at 3pm and Boyce was released shortly after 5pm on April 6 without having been charged nor seeing a judge. \nOn April 8, 2020, Plaintiff Denzel Bobb was driving his vehicle, looking for parking SH was in the passenger seat, and Shaquweice Mills was in the rear seat. As Bobb was about to park, plainclothes Sgt Samuel Hui and Steven Franzel with officers Keith Stark, Richard Catapano and Vincent D'Andraia arrived in unmarked cars. They alleged that the car had a broken tailight. As Bobb attempted to retrieve the vehicle registration he was asked for by Sgt Hui, he was pulled out of the vehicle and Hui, Stark, and Franzel began beating him. SH and Mills were taken out of the vehicle by Franzel and Catapano and forced to sit on the ground with their handcuffs throughout the assault. Hui pointed his taser at them. Plaintiff Lavon Bartholomew witnessed the assault began recording. PO Stark told him to turn off the light on his camera, Bartholomew complied. Stark and D'Andraia approached Bartholomew again, slapped his phone out of his hand, whereupon they began beating him along with PO Richard Catapano. Upon handcuffing him too tightly, Catapano smashed his head on the sidewalk. All plaintiffs were taken to the precinct.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.466321/gov.uscourts.nyed.466321.29.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60033301/bartholomew-v-ramirez/"},{"name":"Jimenez, Reynaldo vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-01-14","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"518800/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On July 5, 2019, NYPD P.O. Kilfoyle, NYPD P.O. Brian Ramirez, NYPD P.O. Lashonda Porter, NYPD P.O. Sergeant David Mccann, and P.O. John or Jane Does # 1-10, and approximately 25-40 Police Officers unknown to Plaintiff approached Plaintiff and forcibly grabbed him, placing him in an illegal chokehold while pulling/dragging him to the ground and subjecting him to multiple punches to his face and body. The officers then, without a warrant or probable cause, handcuffed Plaintiff, arrested him and caused him to be imprisoned at various locations, including a police vehicle, a police precinct and Central Booking.  During this time, in order to cover up their illegal actions, the Defendant officers, pursuant to a conspiracy, falsely and maliciously told the Kings County District Attorney’s Office that Plaintiff had committed various crimes. \n\nOn October 11, 2020, NYPD officers, driving in an unmarked car,  without either consent, an arrest warrant, a lawful search warrant, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion that plaintiff had committed a crime, stopped Plaintiff, and searched him and his vehicle.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=K_PLUS_rYFClxVcteZ5PRAcFXWA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Dunn, Larry vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-09-03","disposition_date":"2022-05-02","payout_amount":100000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"516059/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Ramirez, Brian","summary":"On July 4, 2019, Plaintiff was at a 4th of July festival with a friend. Plaintiff was approached by officers and asked what was in his fanny pack. Plaintiff responded that it contained personal items such as his wallet. Officers illegally seized and searched Plaintiff's fanny back and falsely claimed there was ammunition within. Officers then rushed Plaintiff, threw him to the ground, and handcuffed him. Thereafter, officers \"realized\" there was no ammunition, but then claimed the fanny pack smelled of marijuana. Plaintiff was handcuffed for several hours before he was released with a charge for possession of marijuana. All charges were later dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=tMJRhE7NinrQu8qa35KIlg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Watkins, Gregory vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-10-30","disposition_date":"2020-09-11","payout_amount":30000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"523308/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Ramirez, Brian","summary":"On July 4, 2019, the plaintiff was unlawfully stopped, seized, searched, assaulted and arrested by the defendant PO including PO Brian Ramirez without any reasonable suspicion of unlawful behaviour. The defendants falsely accused the plaintiff of crimes and assaulted the plaintiff by tackling him to the ground and slamming him into a car causing multiple injuries. The plaintiff's hands were then contorted behind his back and then handcuffed in an excessively tight fashion. The plaintiff was taken to the 73rd Precinct where he was fingerprinted, photographed and searched and was then taken to Kings Central Booking where she was processed again. On July 5, 2019, after the plaintiff was detained for more than a day he was released after the District Attorney's Office refused to prosecute the plaintiff.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=yK9_PLUS_xxgHSzHZyXzbJUi65w==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Wisdom, Khalid vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-05-04","disposition_date":"2018-02-26","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV02443","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Ramirez, Brian","summary":"Officers in plain clothes approached the plaintiff and began to search him. When the plaintiff started to protest against the search, the officers slammed him to the ground and arrested him. Plaintiff was then brought to the precinct and learned that he was being charged with possession of a gun.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923866-Wisdom-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23594296-2018_wisdom_17cv02443","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6860467/wisdom-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Charles, Nichlon vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-02-13","disposition_date":"2015-07-13","payout_amount":15000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV00727","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Ramirez, Brian","summary":"Plaintiff opened the door to a residence for Defendant Officers who then threw him against a wall, searched him, arrested him, took him to the 73rd Precinct, and charged him with Criminal Possession of Marijuana in the Fifth Degree, Criminal Trespass in the Third Degree, and Resisting Arrest.  All charges were ACD'd.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920451-Charles-v-City-of-New-York-et-al","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920452-Charles-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/47836155/charles-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Walcott, Anthony vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-02-10","disposition_date":"2016-03-02","payout_amount":2501,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV00651","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Ramirez, Brian","summary":"Plaintiff was waiting for a friend in her building when defendant officers approached him, handcuffed him, and arrested him. Plaintiff was given a DAT for trespassing that was later dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.366015.13.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4922139-Walcott-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4324103/walcott-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Tucker et al v. City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","payout_amount":45000,"disposition":"Settlement","summary":"Defendant Officers approached Plaintiff 1 as he was about to enter his home, demanded to go inside, and Officer Luti pushed him. After Plaintiff 2 witnessed this and was intimidated, he allowed officers to enter the home. Officer Luti put Plaintiff 1 in a headlock while Officer Rodriguez repeatedly punched him. Officers continued to assault him, then handcuffed him, brought him to the 73rd Precinct, and charged him with OGA, Resisting Arrest, Attempted Assault in the Third Degree, and Harassment in the Second Degree, which were all eventually dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919080-Tucker-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919081-Tucker-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"10CV04403","officer_name":"Brian Ramirez"},{"name":"Simmons v. City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","payout_amount":10000,"disposition":"Settlement","summary":"Defendant Officers approached Plaintiff on the street while he was throwing a pair of dice with his friend, handcuffed him, and searched him.  Plaintiff was taken to the 28th Precinct, then released the next day after the DA declined to prosecute.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919714-Simmons-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919713-Simmons-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"12CV06554","officer_name":"Brian Ramirez","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/12961844/simmons-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Mason v. City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","plaintiff_race":"Black or African American","payout_amount":625000,"disposition":"Settlement","summary":"After plaintiff witnessed Defendant Officers assaulting two civilians, they approached him, threw him to the ground, and handcuffed him and Sgt. Rodriguez kicked Plaintiff in the eye. Plaintiff was taken to the 28th Precinct and charged with OGA and Resisting Arrest, which were later ACD'd","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920001-Mason-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"13CV07139","officer_name":"Brian Ramirez","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13245350/mason-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2023-12-26","case_no":"2023-28333","recommendation":"Charges and Specifications","allegations":[{"desc":"Off-duty employment without permission."}]},{"disposition_date":"2022-08-02","case_no":"2022-25307","recommendation":"Other","allegations":[{"desc":"Failed to make required entries in Department logs."}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21027890-ramirez-6d6b5978377d3eca63803c7410b60cc5cd62f832","type":"brady-giglio","complaints":[{"complaint_id":202002419,"available":true}]},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21058711-ramirez-946143-03-01-21","type":"brady-giglio"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21193623-ramirez-946143-10-19-20","type":"brady-giglio"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21615316-ramirez-946143-m18-160","type":"brady-giglio"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22085576-seh_946143","type":"employment-history"}],"id":"CFNK","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/CFNK"}