{"active":false,"first_name":"Patrick","last_name":"Graney","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DTS","command":{"command":"ESS 07","id":"ESS7"},"shield_no":5356,"ended_date":"2021-03-01","taxid":"920348","complaint_ids":[200502799,200401768,200200558],"command_history":[{"command":"103 PCT","id":"103pct"}],"appt_date":"1997-12-08","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":"Thomas, Dillon, et al. vs P.O. Dash, Latasha, et al.","start_date":"2016-10-14","disposition_date":"2016-12-14","payout_amount":95000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV03140","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Graney, Patrick","summary":"Defendant officer John Does entered Plaintiff's residence with guns drawn, assaulted Plaintiffs, arrested them, and charged them with multiple felonies.  Defendant Officer Dash failed to disclose exculpatory evidence that resulted in all charges being dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920714-Thomas-et-al-v-Dash-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4520476/thomas-v-dash/"},{"name":"Slade, Melissa, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-04-10","disposition_date":"2014-10-10","payout_amount":23000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV02285","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Graney, Patrick","summary":"On September 23, 2013, Plaintiffs, who are all related, were staying over at one plaintiff's residence after a family get together. After their neighbor had a verbal altercation with one of the plaintiffs, officers arrived outside of the building. These officers include Wayne S. Forde, Robert Schierenbeck, Michael Raimo, Timothy Fox, Vincent Salerno, Robert Aasheim, William Stevens, and Patrick Graney. The officers kicked and banged on Plaintiffs' door, and threatened to break down the door. A Plaintiff opened the door to see what the officers wanted, and was pointed by a gun, grabbed, and handcuffed. The officers entered the apartment without a search warrant. During the intrusion, the officers pointed guns at multiple plaintiffs who were frightened, often accompanied by children, and often only partially dressed as they were asleep. The officers also called some plaintiffs using racial slurs and used excessive force in arresting them. One plaintiff was falsely charged and the charges were ultimately all dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.355111/gov.uscourts.nyed.355111.15.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5690246/slade-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Graney, Patrick","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2012-04-16","disposition_date":"2014-12-05","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","docket":"12CV01823","name":"Wise, Henrietta, et Al vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":87500,"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/5665457/wise-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":"Patrick J. Graney","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4324996/britton-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"TRAP","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/TRAP"}