Conclusion Meanings:
'Exonerated': or 'Within NYPD Guidelines' - the alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD's own rules, which often give officers significant discretion.
'Unsubstantiated': or 'Unable to Determine' - CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.
'Within NYPD Guidelines': The alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD's own rules, which often give officers significant discretion.
Further details on conclusion definitions.
Dominguez, Steven vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 21CV02302,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, April 14, 2021
Complaint
Description: On December 31, 2019, plaintiff Steven Dominguez attended a New Year's Eve celebration at a private event space in Brooklyn. A scuffle broke out at the event and an unidentified person slashed plaintiff's face with a knife, leaving a large cash on plaintiff's right cheek. When the police arrived, despite plaintiff's girlfriend and a friend of plaintiff's identifying the attacker, the police did not question the attacker and allowed him to get in a car and rive away. The police, including defendants (Officers Joseph Battista, Dylan Lynch, and Patrick Lynch, and Detectives Evan Nielsen and Patrick Graney) aggressively questioned plaintiff as he was lying on the ground bleeding from his head. None of the defen...