Complaint #200614023,
October 20, 2006

Officer: Unknown Officer
Complainant: Black Male, 18-20
Allegation: Abuse of Authority: Stop
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer: Unknown Officer
Complainant: Male
Allegation: Abuse of Authority: Frisk
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer: Unknown Officer
Complainant: Black Male, 18-20
Allegation: Abuse of Authority: Search (of person)
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer: Insauto, Paul
Complainant: Black Male, 20
Allegation: Discourtesy: Word
CCRB Conclusion: Unsubstantiated
Officer: Insauto, Paul
Complainant: Male, 17
Allegation: Abuse of Authority: Stop
CCRB Conclusion: Unsubstantiated
Officer: Insauto, Paul
Complainant: Male, 17
Allegation: Abuse of Authority: Search (of person)
CCRB Conclusion: Unsubstantiated
Officer: Insauto, Paul
Complainant: Male, 17
Allegation: Abuse of Authority: Frisk
CCRB Conclusion: Unsubstantiated
Officer: Unknown Officer
Complainant: Black Male, 18-20
Allegation: Discourtesy: Word
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer Complainant Allegation CCRB Conclusion
Unknown Officer Black Male, 18-20 Abuse of Authority: Stop Officer(s) Unidentified
Unknown Officer Male Abuse of Authority: Frisk Officer(s) Unidentified
Unknown Officer Black Male, 18-20 Abuse of Authority: Search (of person) Officer(s) Unidentified
Insauto, Paul Black Male, 20 Discourtesy: Word Unsubstantiated
Insauto, Paul Male, 17 Abuse of Authority: Stop Unsubstantiated
Insauto, Paul Male, 17 Abuse of Authority: Search (of person) Unsubstantiated
Insauto, Paul Male, 17 Abuse of Authority: Frisk Unsubstantiated
Unknown Officer Black Male, 18-20 Discourtesy: Word Officer(s) Unidentified

Conclusion Meanings:

'Officer(s) Unidentified': Unable to identify the officers who committed the alleged misconduct
'Unsubstantiated': or 'Unable to Determine' - The alleged conduct was investigated but could not determine both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.

Further details on conclusions.


Summary

On October 20, 2006, at approximately 4:15 PM, [redacted] and his friends, [redacted] and an individual known as [redacted] had left [redacted] building and were walking down Franklin Avenue in Brooklyn. At the corner of Eastern Parkway and Franklin Avenue, a silverish/tan unmarked Ford, license plate number [redacted] 1, stopped next to the four males. [redacted] and his three friends looked towards the vehicle, and then three plainclothes officers emerged. The driver remained in the car. The officers approached the four men and said, "Step back, step back." The officers moved towards the four teens causing [redacted] and his friends to step backwards until they were up against the wall of a laundromat. One of the officers, identified by the CCRB as PO Insauto asked, "Do any of you guys have guns or drugs?" [redacted] described PO Insauto as a Hispanic male, 5'6"-5'7", husky, with short hair. [redacted] responding by asking the officer why he thought they had guns or drugs. An unidentified officer then searched [redacted] while PO Insauto searched [redacted] and another unidentified officer searched [redacted]. [redacted] described the officer that searched as a white male, 6'-6'2", with a fatty muscular build, and no facial hair. [redacted] later identified this officer as a sergeant, but did not know how he obtained this information. [redacted] described the officer that searched [redacted] as a black male. [redacted] and [redacted] did not say anything to the police officers or object to the search. Each of the officers first patted down [redacted] friends' pants' pockets, patted around their waist and then the officers put their hands into the men's back pockets of their pants. PO Insauto found a small, 3 ½" pocketknife in [redacted]'s back pocket. PO Insauto said, "Ah! What's this? Now shut the fuck up!" [redacted] responded, "You were searching for guns and drugs!" The white male officer then said, "You know what? You think you're a lawyer now? Shut the fuck up before you get into this." [redacted]... Read report for details.


Details

Incident: October 20, 2006
Closed: January 11, 2008

Reason for contact: PD suspected C/V of violation/crime - street
Location: Street/highway
In NYPD 71st Precinct Brooklyn
Outcome: Arrest - other violation/crime

Witness Officers: Gregory Abrahams, Michael Houlihan, Noel Jugraj, Christopher Kirch, Mark Zajac