Conclusion Meanings:
'Unfounded': Evidence suggests that the event or alleged conduct did not occur.
'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.
Further details on conclusion definitions.
Dudley, Galvin vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV04820,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, August 26, 2015, ended December 5, 2017
$15,000 Settlement
Complaint,
First Amended Complaint
Description: Defendant Officers pulled Plaintiff over while he was driving, ordered him out of his vehicle and brutalized him. Plaintiff was taken to the hospital, then a police precinct where he was charged with reckless endangerment in the first degree, OGA, resisting arrest, and a summons for littering. On a second occasion, the same officer Lai approached Plaintiff while he was in his parked car, ordered him out, assaulted him, took him to a precinct, and charged him with criminal impersonation, OGA and resisting arrest, which was ACD'd.