Complaint #201605116,
June 13, 2016

Summary

On June 13, 2016, at approximately 3:39 p.m., [redacted] who was never interviewed by the CCRB, was riding north on a bicycle on Greenwich Avenue in the vicinity of West 10th Street in Manhattan, along with three of his friends: [redacted] and [redacted]. An off-duty member-of-service dressed in civilian clothing, Sgt. Gregory Abbott of the 6th Precinct, was driving his personal vehicle, a silver 2010 Honda Insight, in the same area. [redacted] did not know that Sgt. Abbott was a member-of-service.
[redacted] alleged that Sgt. Abbott cut him off with his vehicle, which forced [redacted] to close Sgt. Abbott's passengers side-view mirror in order to squeeze between Sgt. Abbott's vehicle on his left and a parked vehicle on his right. [redacted] yelled at Sgt. Abbott, announcing his presence. After passing by Sgt. Abbott's vehicle, he noticed [redacted] looked behind him to check on his three friends. [redacted] saw Sgt. Abbott motion for him to approach his vehicle. [redacted] stopped, set his bicycle on the ground, and began walking towards Sgt. Abbott.
As [redacted] walked towards Sgt. Abbott, Sgt. Abbott exited his vehicle and began walking towards [redacted] with his hand in his pocket. [redacted] reached into one of his pockets to retrieve his cell phone, when one of [redacted]'s bicycle tools fell to the ground. When [redacted] reached down to pick up the tool, Sgt. Abbott pulled out a gun and pointed it at [redacted] (Allegation A). [redacted] alleged that for the first few seconds the gun was drawn, Sgt. Abbott also oscillated pointing the gun between him, [redacted] and [redacted] (Allegations B through D). Read report for details.