{"active":true,"first_name":"Gabriel","last_name":"Mendez","race":"Hispanic","gender":"Male","rank":"PO","command":{"command":"PBMS","assignment_date":"2016-07-10","id":"PBMS"},"shield_no":13465,"taxid":"955183","complaint_ids":[202310808,202204238,201902738,201504627],"command_history":[{"command":"PBBN","id":"PBBN"}],"appt_date":"2013-07-09","lawsuits":[{"name":"Patel, Shyam vs Police Sergeant Armani, Hameed, et al.","start_date":"2018-08-06","disposition_date":"2019-07-08","payout_amount":30000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"18CV06046","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Mendez, Gabriel","summary":"On May 23, 2016, Plaintiff Shyam Patel was with a friend in a Times Square seating area when he observed defendant police officers Hameed Armani, Peter Cybulski, Michael Farrar, Gabriel Mendez, Scott Carley, and former police officer Sherief Khamis walking in the area. Several minutes before, the same officers issued plaintiff a summons for, upon information and belief, windows excessively tinted. In an exercise of his First Amendment rights, plaintiff displayed his middle finger to defendant officer Armani. The defendants approached the plaintiff while plaintiff was video-recording on his cell phone. Armani asked the plaintiff for his identification, objected to plaintiff's gesture, grabbed and immobilized plaintiff's left hand, and grabbed plaintiff's cell phone from his right hand. Armani again demanded identification, which the plaintiff had left in his car. Defendants Armani and Cybulski then lifted plaintiff to his feet and handcuffed him. The other police officers (Mendez, Carley, Khamis, and Farrar) stood close by and failed to intervene in the illegal actions of Armani and Cybulski. All the defendant officers brought plaintiff to a nearby NYPD patrol car. \n\nPlaintiff demonstrated full physical compliance as the arrest was happening, but he was charged with a misdemeanor Crime of Resisting Arrest and Disorderly Conduct based on Cybulski's perjurious sworn statement. Defendants Armani and Cybulski falsely arrested the plaintiff and maliciously initiated, commenced, and continued a prosecution against plaintiff. The charges against the plaintiff were dismissed after multiple court appearances across approximately four months. Defendants Armani and Cybulski also exercised an objectively unreasonable use of force against the plaintiff and deprived plaintiff of his constitutional rights by preventing plaintiff from filming police activity, destroying video evidence, fabricating evidence, and abusing criminal process. The other defendant officers witnessed the unlawful conduct of their fellow officers and failed to intervene to protect the plaintiff.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.496879/gov.uscourts.nysd.496879.21.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7354153/patel-v-armani/"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/DNMR-gabriel-mendez.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"109352","regular":"108510","overtime":"25953","other":"20646","total":"155110"},"id":"DNMR","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/DNMR"}