{"active":true,"first_name":"Desmond","last_name":"John","race":"Black","gender":"Male","rank":"DTS","command":{"command":"COD QUALITY OF LIFE DIVISION","assignment_date":"2025-04-15","id":"862"},"shield_no":5159,"taxid":"940307","complaint_ids":[202202565,202004067,201309472,201208923,201116124,201108859,201010437],"command_history":[{"command":"PSB WHEEL"},{"command":"088 PCT","id":"88pct"}],"appt_date":"2006-01-09","middle_initial":"R","shield_no_history":[14309],"lawsuits":[{"officer_name":"John, Desmond R.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2019-02-26","disposition_date":"2020-10-27","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","docket":"503599/2019","name":"Wharff, Winifred vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":7500},{"name":"Johnson, Shaunda Obo G., L. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-10-12","disposition_date":"2017-08-29","payout_amount":15000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV05638","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"John, Desmond R.","summary":"On March 20, 2016, plaintiff LG, 16 years old, was standing next to two friends in the street who were asking people to donate money for a high school baseball team. When plaintiff LG accompanied the friends and entered a subway station. One friend ran away upon the sight of an officer. Plaintiff LG who was afraid of the police due to her experience as a young African American and the other friends ran shortly after. Police officers stopped plaintiff LG and arrested him/her and the friends. At the precinct, police officers searched plaintiff and placed him/her in a cell. Plaintiff LG's mother arrived but officers refused to allow her to see or talk with LG. Corporation Counsel declined to prosecute the case and the charges were dismissed. Since then, LG has continued to suffer panic attacks in the presence of NYPD. A few months earlier, LG had been arrested for a crime that he/she did not commit.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.392064.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4562444/johnson-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Johnson, Shaunda, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-08-30","disposition_date":"2017-08-30","payout_amount":20000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV04663","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"John, Desmond R.","summary":"On July 30, 2015 at approximately 10:00 PM, Plaintiffs Shaunda Johnson and Deborah Green (who also sue on behalf of their infant children NG and LG), were with their infant friend DA in a large group of children at the Atlantic Terminal shopping mall. Not everyone in this group was friends. The Plaintiffs were walking LG, NG, and DA in the area of the Atlantic Terminal toward Fort Greene Park, the area where LG lived. At approximately 10PM, in the vicinity of the Atlantic Terminal one of the children in the large group struck a bystander pedestrian in the face as the group was moving toward Fort Greene Park. Neither LG nor NG assisted in this in any way. As the pedestrian lay bleeding on the ground, LG approached the pedestrian and asked whether he needed assistance. At this point, many members of their group ran away. Out of fear, plaintiffs ran toward Fort Greene Park. About 30 minutes later, NYPD PO Joel Paulino, Sgt. Camacho & John and Jane Doe (1-5) stopped and unlawfully detained LG, NG, and DA. At this moment, the police had the injured pedestrian pick the assailant out of an impromptu lineup. The pedestrian did not identify LG, NG, or DA, but the plaintiffs were nonetheless arrested on gang assault charges. The were handcuffed and transported to the 88th precinct.\n\nLG and NG were not given the opportunity to communicate with their parents, and an officer did not let Plaintiff see her infant child. The infant plaintiffs were shackled excessively in a way that hurt them and transported to a detention center by Defendants Paulino, Camacho, and Jane and John Doe (1-5). The detention center did not let the children interact with their guardians. At 7AM, the children were released and transported to Brooklyn family court. Before their release, the infants were detained for at least 20 hours. A court official told Plaintiff Johnson that the bystander pedestrian who had been struck had not identified LG, or NG. The pedestrian was not sure that NG or any of the children had hit him. The officers declined to prosecute the infants.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.390204/gov.uscourts.nyed.390204.12.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13343989/johnson-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21024665-john-705fc392b7cbfd02e74c49cf371b9688dc0cffaa","type":"brady-giglio"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/PGLB-desmond-john.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"119980","regular":"115478","overtime":"30495","other":"19573","total":"165546"},"id":"PGLB","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/PGLB"}