{"active":false,"first_name":"Eugene","last_name":"Burke","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT","command":{"command":"023 PCT","id":"23pct"},"shield_no":1979,"ended_date":"2013-10-01","taxid":"910749","complaint_ids":[201305142,201214209,201212722,201210461,201113908,200909200,200701899,6393111],"command_history":[{"command":"041 PCT","id":"41pct"}],"appt_date":"1991-04-30","lawsuits":[{"name":"Mills, Timothy vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-10-07","disposition_date":"2014-07-22","payout_amount":65000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV05939","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Burke, Eugene T.","summary":"On September 3, 2012, the Plaintiff was walking on a sidewalk in Manhattan when he met Mr. Ridley, a person who had been recently ejected from a nearby halfway house where Plaintiff was staying. Mr Ridley asked Plaintiff to give him some toiletries from the halfway house’s supplies. Plaintiff agreed and went to the halfway house to retrieve some of his own toiletries. A  few minutes later,  he came back to give Mr. Ridley the toiletries. They entered in a convenience store so Plaintiff could get some change to give to Mr. Ridley. After they left the store, they parted ways and began to walk away from each other. At that moment, the NYPD defendants rushed in and ordered both Plaintiff and Mr. Ridley to get on the ground. They both complied with the order. After that, one of the NYPD defendants approached a nearby phone booth and pulled out a loaded firearm from a black bag on a opening near the top of the phone booth. The Senior Police Officer Sergeant Burke ordered the other NYPD officers to arrest both Plaintiff and Mr. Ridley. They complied and Plaintiff was taken to the precinct and the Central Booking along with Mr. Ripley. Although the police lacked any basis to connect Plaintiff with the firearm in the phone booth, he was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. The allegations were based on an informant’s statements that did not demonstrate any probable or legal cause of Plaintiff’s involvement with that firearm. Additionally, those allegations were false in the part where they stated that Plaintiffs and Mr. Ridley had huddled together in the phone booth. Moreover, the NYPD radio run received by the NYPD defendants was clear that the person who placed the black plastic bag with the gun into the phone booth was a person who did not match with Plaintiff’s description. As a result, the Court set a bail of $ 7,500,00 that Plaintiff’s couldn’t afford so he was taken to the Rykers Island. On September 7, 2012 he was brought from Rykers Island back to the criminal court where he was scheduled to be released on his recognizance the same day, on the basis of the agreement between his counsel defense and the prosecutor. However, due to ambiguous statements from both the defense and the prosecutor, Plaintiff was not released. Instead he was brought back to Rykers Island. On September 10, 2012, the Supreme Court Justice Neil Ross ordered Plaintiff to be released from the custody. However, Plaintiff, who all the time of his detention had been complained to the NYCDOC defendants he should have been released on September  7, was released from custody only in the night of September 12 or in the early morning of September 13. At the hearing of October 9, 2012, Plaintff voluntarily provided a sample of his DNA to the prosecutor. On February 15 2013, all the charges against Plaintiff were dismissed because neither Plaintiff’s DNA nor his fingerprint were matched to those found on the firearms. As a result of the defendants conduct, Plaintiff lost housing and job opportunities, incurred medical injuries related to the interruption of his treatments for diabetes, and suffered substantial emotional injuries related to his unlawful detention and prosecution.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.416679/gov.uscourts.nysd.416679.23.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13055048/mills-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Beckett, Lawrence, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-06-27","disposition_date":"2015-02-12","payout_amount":44000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"155559/2013","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Burke, Eugene T.","summary":"On August 13, 2012, the two plaintiffs were lawfully present at M.J. Pizza located at 1976 1st Avenue, when both plaintiffs were assaulted and battered by defendants Police Officers Frias, Police Officer Fena, Police Sergeant Burke, and unnamed Police Officers John and Jane Does. The assault was without probable cause and was not the result of an appropriate arrest. The subsequent arrest and confinement were also without probable cause and not founded upon an arrest warrant. The defendant police officers intentionally and negligently inflicted emotional distress on the plaintiffs. In order to cover up their wrongful behavior, the defendants created and submitted an erroneous police report and initiated a prosecution in bad faith against the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs thus suffered serious injuries from the incident, physically, psychologically, and financially.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=M9h5Gu08P5scS_PLUS_eqVMKp5Q==&system=prod","type":"complaint"}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"id":"WWUD","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/WWUD"}