{"active":true,"first_name":"Nicholas","last_name":"Velotti","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT","command":{"command":"103 PCT","assignment_date":"2022-03-10","id":"103pct"},"shield_no":3304,"taxid":"949767","complaint_ids":[201908341,201907191,201701535,201608430],"command_history":[{"command":"101 PCT","id":"101pct"}],"appt_date":"2010-07-06","shield_no_history":[9432],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Battle, Dejuan vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2020-09-17","disposition_date":"2021-10-25","payout_amount":6000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"20CV04267","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Velotti, Nicholas","summary":"On the afternoon of June 1, 2018, Mr. Battle was standing outside near a deli parking lot, drinking from a bag. An unmarked police car drove by, and upon officers making eye contact with Mr. Battle, drove into the parking lot. Plain clothes officers Lukasz Solis and Nicholas Velotti of the 101st precinct approached and after being questioned about the bag, Mr. Battle admitted there was alcohol within it. The two officers then unlawfully searched him, asking about other contraband. Mr. Battle responded that he carried a folding knife for his job in a mailroom to open boxes. After retrieving the knife from his pocket, Officers Solis and Velotti arrested and detained Mr. Battle. Four other officers, unnamed in the suit, were present and did nothing to intervene.\n\nMr. Battle was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree (with his knife being called a gravity knife) and the violation of public consumption of alcohol. Prior to this, Mr. Battle had been victim to multiple false arrests and malicious prosecutions by multiple officers at the 101st precinct, even having won a significant settlement for being in prison for 3.5 years after his case was overturned by the Appellate Division. Officers Solis and Velotti knew of these prior events and targeted Mr. Battle, furthering his emotional distress through their misconduct and abuse of process. After going to trial (for which Mr. Battle was forced to miss 12 days of work), the judge dismissed the case as an instance of a minor charge of public consumption of alcohol “really being used as a predicate for more invasive action towards the defendant for which there is no predicate.” Mr. Battle also pursued a Monell claim because of the City's customs, practices, procedures and rules under which the police officers carried out their duties.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.452797/gov.uscourts.nyed.452797.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18431669/battle-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Norea, Kerron vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-10-23","disposition_date":"2016-06-17","payout_amount":50001,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV06165","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Velotti, Nicholas","summary":"On October 27, 2013 around 6:30PM, plaintiff was playing basketball with his family on his aunt's property. POs Conde and Cusick (who were looking for a man who committed an assault) approached plaintiff and asked why he was out of breath. Plaintiff responded that he was playing basketball. Conde and Cusick asked plaintiff to come to the front of the house and began pushing him towards to front of the house and street. As they approached the street, one PO tried to grab plaintiff's arm. Plaintiff moved his arm and the POs screamed that he was resisting arrest. One PO then began to beat plaintiff by hitting him on his head and face with a closed fist while the other restrained plaintiff and attempted to bring him to the ground. While plaintiff was attacked, the victim of the assault and plaintiff's aunt and cousin yelled at the officers that the assaulter was not the plaintiff. POs Velotti, Hawkins, and others arrived while or before plaintiff was attacked but did not intervene in the attack or plaintiff's arrest.\n\nPlaintiff was taken to the 101st Precinct where he was processed and charged with obstructing governmental administration in the second degree, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct. The PO who took plaintiff's prints told plaintiff that the defendants' conduct was not proper and plaintiff did nothing wrong. Plaintiff was released and sought treatment at the hospital, where he was diagnosed with internal bruises in his face and injuries to his jaw. Plaintiff was prosecuted for a year and a half. One charge was dismissed for facial insufficiency and the other two were acquitted by a jury in April 2015.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23718983-2016_norea_14cv06165","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6299828/norea-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23201643-disclosure-letter-velotti-nicholas","type":"brady-giglio"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/RFYF-nicholas-velotti.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"97894","regular":"96691","overtime":"9447","other":"21764","total":"127902"},"id":"RFYF","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/RFYF"}