Complaint #201502193,
March 17, 2015

Summary

In March 2015, A UPS worker stated that while he was preparing for his shift, three plainclothes officers entered the facility and shouted and cursed at him. When the man said he did not know who they were and that they "had the wrong guy" one officer pushed him to the ground. A crowd of UPS employees arrived and a supervisor spoke to the officers, who left. The man was able to take a photograph of the car the officers were in. The victim was hospitalized and missed four days of work from his fall after being shoved to the ground.
Exterior security footage of the UPS facility showed the officers following a car, and pursuing the driver of that car on foot in the UPS facility parking lot. They then entered the facility, and were no longer captured on video.
The officers – PO Ryan Scannell, PO James St. Germain, and PO Ryan Hoffmann – each specifically denied that they had entered the UPS facility. They continued to deny that they had driven into the facility, in pursuit of a car or for any other reason. None had a memo book entry for the incident.
The CCRB substantiated charges against PO Scannell for pushing the man to the ground and cursing at him and found that all three officers made false statements to the CCRB.
PO Scannell did not contest the charge that he pushed the man at the Administrative Prosecution Unit and was forced to give up 5 vacation days. There is no evidence that the NYPD disciplined him for lying.
The NYPD downgraded PO St. Germain's false statement to a technical violation for failing to prepare a memobook entry, and only the technical violation was disclosed on his Brooklyn DA letter. He has since been found to have inaccurately invoiced drugs or money on four different occasions.
There is no evidence that PO Hoffmann was disciplined for the incident. Read report for details.