Complaint #202003945,
June 3, 2020

Officer: Unknown Officer
Allegation: Discourtesy: Word
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer: Unknown Officer
Allegation: Discourtesy: Gesture
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer: Unknown Officer
Allegation: Force: Physical force
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Officer: Unknown Officer
Allegation: Offensive Language: Race
CCRB Conclusion: Officer(s) Unidentified
Recategorized as: Offensive Language: Other
Officer: Chen, Jianwei
Allegation: Untruthful Statement: Misleading official statement
CCRB Conclusion: Substantiated (Charges)
Officer: Ortiz, Martin
Allegation: Untruthful Statement: False official statement
CCRB Conclusion: Substantiated (Charges)
Officer Allegation CCRB Conclusion
Unknown Officer Discourtesy: Word Officer(s) Unidentified
Unknown Officer Discourtesy: Gesture Officer(s) Unidentified
Unknown Officer Force: Physical force Officer(s) Unidentified
Unknown Officer Offensive Language: Race Officer(s) Unidentified
Recategorized as Offensive Language: Other on December 9, 2024
Chen, Jianwei Untruthful Statement: Misleading official statement Substantiated (Charges)
Ortiz, Martin Untruthful Statement: False official statement Substantiated (Charges)

Conclusion Meanings:

'Officer(s) Unidentified': Unable to identify the officers who committed the alleged misconduct
'Substantiated': The misconduct occurred and it violated the rules. The NYPD has discretion over what, if any, discipline is imposed.

Further details on conclusions.


Penalties

Chen, Jianwei
Closed: Dismissed by APU, January 23, 2024
APU Closed: Dismissed by APU

Ortiz, Martin
Closed: Dismissed by APU, January 23, 2024
APU Closed: Dismissed by APU

Summary

On June 3, 2020, at approximately 11:15 p.m., [redacted] was in her apartment, located at [redacted] in Brooklyn when she heard noise outside on her block. [redacted] She went to the front of her apartment building, where she saw approximately 25 police officers and 50 protesters. [redacted] visibility was focused on the middle of her block, specifically, towards the rear of 789 Saint Mark Avenue and the entrance of 1206 Bergen Street. From the front stoop of her building, she saw officers chase the protesters from New York Avenue towards Brooklyn Avenue. She saw officers push and shove the demonstrators, some officers chased a group of the protesters into the entryway alcove of 1206 Bergen Street, and other officers hit the unidentified demonstrators with their batons on their shoulders, backs, and arms (Allegation A: Physical force, [redacted]). The officers arrested the protesters by placing their hands in zip ties and then brought them to marked police vans located in the middle of the Bergen Street block. When the officers were about to leave the block, [redacted] heard one unidentified police officer yell, "Fuck you" to all her neighbors who reside in the building across from her own (Allegation B: Discourtesy, [redacted]). [redacted] neighbor, [redacted] recorded this portion of the incident. Later, [redacted] found a video of this same incident on the Twitter account [redacted]. She noted that in that video, she saw officers extending their middle finger at unidentified individuals (Allegation C: Discourtesy, [redacted]). As the officers drove away, they played an ice cream song that is known as "Turkey in a Straw," and in other contexts as, "Nigger Love a Watermelon" (Allegation D: Offensive Language, [redacted]).
Police Officer Jianwei Chen and Police Officer Martin Ortiz, both of the 71st Precinct, respectively provided misleading official statement, and a false official statement to the CCRB (Allegations E and F: Untruthful Statement, [redacted]). Read report for details.


Details

Incident: June 3, 2020
Received: June 4, 2020
Closed: April 4, 2022
Last Updated: December 11, 2024

Reason for contact: C/V intervened on behalf of/observed encounter w/3rd party
Location: Street/highway
In NYPD 77th Precinct Brooklyn
Outcome: No arrest made or summons issued

Witness Officers: Michael Haber, Thomas Owens, Ludwig Romero
Video evidence collected