{"active":false,"first_name":"Russell","last_name":"Lawry","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"POM","command":{"command":"TB DT20","id":"TB20"},"shield_no":6725,"ended_date":"2013-01-07","taxid":"911096","complaint_ids":[201207083,200809315,9504620,6394225,6393364],"appt_date":"1992-01-13","lawsuits":[{"name":"Menninger, Charles vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-09-13","disposition_date":"2014-11-03","payout_amount":35000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV04987","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Lawry, Russell","summary":"On June 1, 2012, Plaintiff Charles Menninger was involved in a skirmish with unknown younger males in Queens (Jackson Heights).  Plaintiff was homeless and intoxicated.  Fearing attacks from multiple members of the group, he grabbed a metal pipe to protect himself.  The group ran away.  Almost simultaneously, officers LAWRY and SAMOT appeared and ordered plaintiff to drop the pipe.  Plaintiff did not respond right away due to intoxication.  SAMOT hit plaintiff with baton several times and LAWRY tackled plaintiff.  SAMOT continued to assault with baton and LAWRY did not stop SAMOT.  LAWRY assaulted plaintiff also.  A crowd gathered, becoming angry at the officers for the continued assault. One of the officers put their knee into plaintiff's back, cutting off plaintiff's air supply, effectively suffocating plaintiff.  Sergeant Caron Addesso decided not to arrest plaintiff due to a strong probability of disciplinary issues should plaintiff's injuries be discovered.  Plaintiff walked from the hospital to the office of a lawyer on Queen's Boulevard and explained what happened to him.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.346610.15.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4322832/menninger-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Raffaele, Thomas D. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-08-21","disposition_date":"2018-01-17","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"13CV04607","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Lawry, Russell","summary":"On June 1, 2012, Plaintiff Judge Thomas Raffaele (Supreme Court, Queens County) and an associate arrived at midnight via vehicle at 37th Road and 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, observing a small crowd gathered around a homeless man being restrained by NYPD Officer Samot. Plaintiff pleaded with Officer Samot to cease driving his knee into the neck of the homeless man. As the crowd grew larger, Officer Samot became enraged and charged plaintiff outside the security perimeter surrounding the arrest scene, shoving plaintiff with his right arm and using a karate-chop motion against plaintiff's neck. The chop resulted in blinding pain and temporary loss of the ability to properly speak or breath. NYPD personnel on scene refused to accept a complaint from plaintiff, and later traveled to the emergency room where plaintiff was receiving treatment for his neck pain to prevent other NYPD officers there from taking his complaint. Subsequent halting follow-up from the NYPD and the DA's office resulted in plaintiff concluding there was an internal law enforcement conspiracy to suppress his complaint.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5378190-Raffaele-v-The-City-of-New-York"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.345877.45.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4322784/raffaele-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"P3Y9","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/P3Y9"}