{"active":false,"first_name":"Lawrence","last_name":"Hotaling","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"INT CIS","id":"10"},"shield_no":2671,"ended_date":"2020-08-05","taxid":"897695","complaint_ids":[201907917,201902588,201810280,201709514,201503435,201404974,9200486,9200443],"command_history":[{"command":"084 PCT","id":"84pct"}],"appt_date":"1990-10-15","age":57,"lawsuits":[{"name":"Suggs, Shameek vs City of Ny et al.","start_date":"2022-08-08","disposition_date":"2022-09-27","payout_amount":32500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"510836/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On June 26, 2017, at approximately 8:30 p.m., the defendant police officers allegedly executed a search warrant inside of plaintiff’s friend’s apartment located at 233 Sands Street, Apt. 3K, Brooklyn, New York. Upon entering the apartment, the defendant police officer asked plaintiff if he lived at the apartment and plaintiff showed the defendant officers his identification indicating he did not reside in the apartment, nevertheless defendant police unlawfully handcuffed plaintiff and arrested him.  Plaintiff was then transported against his will to the 84th precinct where he was searched, photographed, fingerprinted, and detained in a\nfilthy holding cell for many hours.  Thereafter, the defendant police officers conducted an invasive strip search of plaintiff, forcing him to take off all of his clothes and shake each piece of clothing out and then ordered to turn around, and with his back facing the defendant police officers, plaintiff was forced to bend over and spread his buttocks and lift his genitals.  he defendant police officers did not recover any drugs, contraband or other illegal paraphernalia from plaintiff. On June 27, 2017 at approximately 3:00 a.m., plaintiff was transported from the 84th Precinct to Brooklyn Central Booking and was placed in a holding cell. Defendant police officers intentionally provided the Kings County District Attorney's Office with false, misleading and incomplete information regarding their basis for\narresting and prosecuting plaintiff and falsely charged plaintiff with crimes he did not commit.  . On June 27, 2017, at approximately 8:30 p.m., after approximately 24 hours in unlawful custody, plaintiff was arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and charged with Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance in the Seventh\nDegree and released on on his own recognizance.  plaintiff was required to make approximately ten (10) additional court appearances until all charges against plaintiff were dismissed and sealed in their entirety on December 18, 2018.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=pyDwB6aXEClxFvy6RpzpPw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Burton, Eduardo vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-12-24","disposition_date":"2021-02-14","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"19CV06677","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Hotaling, Lawrence J.","summary":"On February 27, 2018, NYPD officers, including Stephen Daly, Matthew Vahey, Patrick Barry, Lenno Hendricks, Shawn Soler, Kenneth Paek, Daniel Keane, Dennis Mogelnicki, Eric Miller, and “John” Richardson, forcibly entered an apartment in which plaintiffs were staying. Officers entered the bedroom, pointed guns at plaintiffs, and handcuffed them. The officers were then joined by NYPD officers John Uske, Captain John Breslin, Sergeant David Cheesewright, Leonard Clarke, Andrew Kamna, Lawrende Hotaling, Kellan O’Neill, Gerard Fenton, and Christopher Griffith. Although the officers knew that plaintiffs did not reside at the apartment and that they were not the target of the search warrant, they continued plaintiffs' arrests. Plaintiffs were transported to the 84th Police Precinct. The officers manufactured false evidence, which Uske conveyed to the District Attorney’s office.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.442010/gov.uscourts.nyed.442010.15.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/16518855/burton-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Hennegan, Nicole vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2017-06-12","disposition_date":"2021-06-03","payout_amount":125000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"17CV03193","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Hotaling, Lawrence J.","summary":"On May 5, 2016, twelve police officers in plain clothes, including defendants Officer Grandstaff, Detective Hotaling, Sergeant Cheesewright, and Officer Kamna, ran into plaintiff's apartment while the door was open. Defendants told plaintiff that they had a search warrant, but refused to produce one when plaintiff asked to see it. Defendants ordered plaintiff and her 10 children to leave the apartment at 3:00pm and did not allow them to return until midnight, denying them access to food, water and bathroom relief. Defendant officers searched every room of the apartment and damaged plaintiff's bathroom door frame and lock.\n\nPlaintiff's son was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm after defendants found a pistol in a bedroom drawer, but he was never charged with any crime.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.402239/gov.uscourts.nyed.402239.12.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6616641/hennegan-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21024334-hotaling-9fef82637edabe4367fdd49cfe1271d143ce1171","type":"brady-giglio"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21058330-hotaling-897695-01-06-20","type":"brady-giglio"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20528261-1513","findings":["Illegal parking of Department or private vehicle","Misclassified Complaint Report/Fail to Prepare a Report"],"type":"brady-giglio"}],"id":"L8TY","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/L8TY"}