{"active":false,"first_name":"Evan","last_name":"Nielsen","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DTS","command":{"command":"ESS 07","assignment_date":"2012-12-10","id":"ESS7"},"shield_no":4266,"ended_date":"2024-08-02","taxid":"933096","complaint_ids":[202303937,200506154],"command_history":[{"command":"073 PCT","id":"73pct"}],"appt_date":"2003-07-01","age":44,"middle_initial":"C","shield_no_history":[25916],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Dominguez, Steven vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-04-14","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"21CV02302","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","summary":"On December 31, 2019, plaintiff Steven Dominguez attended a New Year's Eve celebration at a private event space in Brooklyn.  A scuffle broke out at the event and an unidentified person slashed plaintiff's face with a knife, leaving a large cash on plaintiff's right cheek.  When the police arrived, despite plaintiff's girlfriend and a friend of plaintiff's identifying the attacker, the police did not question the attacker and allowed him to get in a car and rive away.  The police, including defendants (Officers Joseph Battista, Dylan Lynch, and Patrick Lynch, and Detectives Evan Nielsen and Patrick Graney) aggressively questioned plaintiff as he was lying on the ground bleeding from his head.  None of the defendants' body cameras recorded their actions, and Officers Battista and Dylan Lynch were aware hours earlier that the batteries on their cameras had died.\n\nThe defendants subsequently directed everyone other than plaintiff to leave the venue, including the nurse who was tending to plaintiff's wound.  Once they were alone with plaintiff, the defendants beat and kicked him, while shouting and cursing at him.  The beating caused plaintiff to lose consciousness.  The defendants then placed plaintiff in a restraint bag - fully enclosing him so that no one could see the physical damage inflicted on him - and took him out to a waiting ambulance.  Plaintiff later awoke handcuffed to a hospital bed.  Plaintiff's injuries from defendants' attack were severe, including a fracture in his forehead, multiple facial lacerations, constant headaches, memory loss, lightheadedness and dizziness, diminished motor skills, weakness in his right leg such that he now requires a cane to walk, frequent back pain, and a change in mental state.  In order to deflect from defendants' attack on plaintiff, defendant Dylan Lynch falsely claimed that he was physically injured by plaintiff and forwarded that information to prosecutors.  Defendant Battista also forwarded the same false information to prosecutors, and  defendant Patrick Lynch signed off on the false charges.  Plaintiff was charged with felony assault of defendant Dylan Lynch, but all charges were subsequently dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.556348/gov.uscourts.nysd.556348.56.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/59738511/dominguez-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Arnon, Lyndon, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-05-02","disposition_date":"2014-12-31","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"14CV02700","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Nielson, Evan","summary":"On or about January 30, 2013, police officers entered and raided a building where the multiple Plaintiffs either resided, or, in the case of one Plaintiff, was lawfully present as a visitor. During the raid, the officers, inter alia, pointed guns at Plaintiffs, performed illegal detentions and searches, failed to provide Miranda rights, used excessive force, failed to allow Plaintiffs to put on proper clothes before they were taken outside, and unlawfully arrested several of the Plaintiffs. Once all residents had been removed from the premises, officers, without consent or a warrant, conducted a full search of the premises that went on for several hours. Later, after returning to the premises, the Plaintiffs found that the premises was severely damaged and that their personal property was missing and/or broken. At the time the complaint was filed, one of the Plaintiffs had not received his confiscated wallet and keys back.  \n\nIn connection with the raid, several of the Plaintiffs were transported to the precinct, where they were held for hours, and then to central booking. All of the Plaintiffs who were brought to the precinct and central booking, except two, were released without being arraigned or charged. The two other Plaintiffs were charged and arraigned; their charges were still pending at the time the complaint was filed and they had pled not guilty to all charges. POs Paul Brown, Jared Fox, Joseph Gullota, Ernest Kenner, Evan Nielson, Patrick Quinlan, Beatrice Shafidiyia, George Tavares, Frederick Vanpelt, Philip Williams, and Does 11-14 (the names Does being fictitious, as the true names were unknown at the time the complaint was filed) unlawfully and personally participated in and/or permitted the unlawful conduct described in the complaint.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.355735.48.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4922176-Brown-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4323336/brown-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Britton et al v. The City Of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","payout_amount":45000,"disposition":"Settlement","summary":"Defendant officers warrantlessly entered Plaintiff's home on multiple occasions searching for a suspect. On this occasion, defendant Sambolin created arrest paperwork in which he stated that the defendants had recovered a decorative sword, a machete, a gravity knife, and marijuana from the premises. DA declined to prosecute.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921323-Britton-et-al-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5378254-Britton-et-al-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"15CV06710","officer_name":"Evan C. Nielsen","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4324996/britton-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21027014-nielsen-eb61ef0341ad073fe62f115778d9ad015ce69a0e","type":"brady-giglio"}],"id":"P475","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/P475"}