{"active":false,"first_name":"Bart","last_name":"Snyder","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT1","command":{"command":"040 DET","id":"40det"},"shield_no":4532,"ended_date":"2015-11-04","taxid":"914024","complaint_ids":[6293403],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Muhammad, Hassan vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-01-31","disposition_date":"2017-12-07","payout_amount":450000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV00625","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Snyder, Bart E.","summary":"On September 12, 2015, at 6:40 PM, an individual was shot in the doorway of a barbershop at 543 East 137th St. in the Bronx. The shooter was wearing white sneakers. The investigation was assigned to defendant 40th Precinct Detective Jose Chevere, under the supervision of defendant LoPuzzo as squad commander. At the time of the shooting, Plaintiff Hassan Muhammad was a block away, inside his home with friends at 164 St. Ann’s Avenue, with friends. Video footage from that day reflects that Mr. Muhammad and his friends did not leave the apartment building until 7:15 p.m. on September 12th, approximately 35 minutes after the shooting. And Mr. Muhammad was wearing black (not white) sneakers. When Plaintiff walked past Chevere and Defendant Antonio Esparra, the detectives stopped and questioned him. Plaintiff explained that he had been at home all day and that the video would confirm that, and he was then released. No DD5 was ever prepared to document the questioning of Mr. Muhammad on September 12.\n\nOver the next 72 hours, 40th Precinct detectives and their supervisors\nwould ignore proof of plaintiff’s innocence while at the same time fabricating evidence against him. Investigators obtained video footage from Mr. Muhammad’s building that proved he was wearing different clothing from the shooter and that he was inside his building when the shooting occurred, but no DD5 was ever prepared to document this evidence. In addition, Investigators at the 40th Precinct received at least three credible leads\nregarding the true perpetrator of the September 12th shooting, but no DD5's were prepared to document these reports. When defendant Chevere prepared the complaint report to document the shooting, he described the perpetrator as wearing black sneakers to falsely connect plaintiff to the crime, even though video evidence clearly showed the shooter wore white shoes. Furthermore, The shooting victim told investigators and prosecutors that he knew Mr. Muhammad from the neighborhood and that he was not the shooter. Two days later in a meeting with an eyewitness, Defendant Chevere presented the eyewitness with a photo array and insisted the eyewitness choose Mr. Muhammad, even though the eyewitness was adamant that another individual in the photo array was the perpetrator. In official police paperwork, defendant Chevere provided a false account of the photo array identification, stating that the eyewitness had pointed to Mr. Muhammad and exclaimed “Oh my fucking god, that’s him.” Using this fabricated evidence, 40th precinct officers charged Mr. Muhammad with various crimes including attempted murder. During an interrogation, Defendant Chevere admitted that he had reviewed the video evidence, but told Mr. Muhammad that he would still “go down” for the attempted murder if he did not falsely confess. Mr. Muhammad declined. Knowing Mr. Muhammad was innocent, defendants Chevere, LoPuzzo,\nEsparra, Monge and other unidentified defendants nevertheless arranged for him to be placed in a sham lineup, the existence of which was withheld from his counsel. In the lineup, Mr. Muhammad was the only young man amongst a group of older police officers. Defendants Rodriguez and Chevere brought the previous eyewitness to the lineup and, along with LoPuzzo, told the eyewitness: “[T]his is the easy part, just pick out the guy you picked in the photos yesterday.” In a sworn statement, the eyewitness affirmed that the person he picked (Mr. Muhammad) was not the shooter. \n\nMr. Muhammad was imprisoned on Riker's for over 219 days, during which he experienced an excessive force incident in which he was sprayed with the chemical agent MK-9. The defendant police officers withheld the video footage and other exculpatory evidence from prosecutors and the grand jury and offered false testimony to the grand jury, resulting in plaintiff’s indictment. Upon becoming aware of the eyewitness's allegations of misconduct, the DA's office moved to dismiss Plaintiff's charges. The charges against plaintiff were subsequently dismissed in their entirety.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.468045/gov.uscourts.nysd.468045.77.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4576743/muhammad-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Almestica, Eduardo vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-08-01","disposition_date":"2015-12-03","payout_amount":45000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV05901","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Snyder, Bart E.","summary":"On November 29, 2011, while plaintiff was detained at the 40th precinct in the Bronx, four defendant officers grabbed him out of his cell, placed his arm in an arm lock behind his back, and pushed him to the ground, causing shoulder pain and two lacerations to his head.  While on the ground, one of the officers continued hitting plaintiff.  He had to be taken by ambulance to Lincoln Medical Center, where he received pain medication, three facial sutures, and three staples placed in his scalp.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923620-Almestica-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.430521.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923621-Almestica-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923622-Almestica-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4923623-Almestica-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4612605/almestica-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"EUL5","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/EUL5"}