Named in 5 known lawsuits, $119,001 total settlements.
Reyes, Seanpaul & Scalzo, James vs The City of Ny, et al.
Case # 522947/2024,
Supreme Court - Kings, August 29, 2024
Complaint
Description: On June 1, 2023 Plaintiff Reyes visited the 75th Precinct to file a complaint while his friend Plaintiff Scalzo remained outside. Plaintiff Reyes was filming to document the process. After entering the lobby Plaintiff encountered a PO who repeatedly told Plaintiff he could not film in the precinct. The PO then spoke to POs Johnathan Ortega, Franklyn Guaman, Oscar Mancilla, or Nicholas Sommella, who shortly confronted and physically grabbed Plaintiff to push him out of the precinct. On the public sidewalk PO Ortega and PO Mancill pushed and shoved Plaintiff about the torso. Plaintiff Reyes then re-entered and was promptly handcuffed. POs also confiscated Plaintiff's camera, microphone, and other property. Plaint...
Nixon, Shameik vs City of Ny
Case # 21CV05900,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, October 20, 2022, ended April 27, 2023
$54,001 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 5, 2020, the plaintiff was at a memorial service when NYPD Officers ordered plaintiff to go home in accordance to the emergency curfew. Plaintiff was complying with the order, but NYPD officers who were carrying batons and wearing riot gear attacked him while he was walking home. They hit him with a barricade and piled on top of him, including forcefully placing knees on his back. The officers handcuffed him too tightly, put him in the police van and continued to lift his arms causing him pain, and brought him to the precinct, falsely arresting him. Officers unnecessarily removed his socks and shoes and left him handcuffed in a cell for several hours before removing the cuffs. Plaintiff was detained for...
Barrett, Shaquille, et Al vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 519887/2020,
Supreme Court - Kings, January 12, 2021, ended January 31, 2025
$50,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On May 11, 2018, Plaintiff Shaquille Barrett and Dyamond Jones were outside when Defendant Police Officers unlawfully stopped and searched them, along with an entire block full of young black people. Plaintiffs Barrett and Jones were arrested for possession of a knife, although they were not in possession of an illegal knife. Plaintiff Barrett was assaulted by Defendant Police Officers. One of Defendant Police Officers pushed Mr. Barrett against a gate and scraped his left side, causing a cut and him to bleed. At arraignment Plaintiffs received an Adjournment in Contemplation of Dismissal (“ACD”). Plaintiff Barrett was incarcerated for approximately 31 hours while Plaintiff Jones was incarcerated for approximat...
Perez, Miguel, et al. vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 520206/2019,
Supreme Court - Kings, September 17, 2019
Complaint
Description: On November 3, 2018, plaintiffs Jeanette Rodriguez and Miguel Perez were lawfully present inside an apartment unit. Defendant-NYPD officers, including Oscar Mancilla (Shield No. 456), entered the unit. The defendant-officers proceeded to assault and batter the plaintiffs without probable cause in the course of conducting unlawful arrests. Subsequently, defendant-officers falsely arrested and confined the plaintiffs without probable cause and without arrest warrants. The defendant-officers then created and submitted erroneous police reports in order to justify their actions against the plaintiffs. These actions resulted in plaintiffs incurring reputational and physical, and plaintiff Perez's incursion of economi...
Parsons, Keisha vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 508756/2019,
Supreme Court - Kings, May 1, 2019, ended February 3, 2020
$15,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On April 29, 2018 Keisha Parsons ("Plaintiff") was unlawfully arrested using excessive physical force, and threats, then detained and charged, with crimes the Plaintiff did not commit, by Officer Mancillo and John Does 1-9 ("Defendants")
The DA refused to prosecute and the Defendants acted intentionally. willfully.
knowingly, negligently, and with reckless disregard for, and deliberate indifference to the rights of the Plaintiff.
The City of NY ("Defendant 2") properly hire, train, supervise, monitor
and discipline its officers and this occurred as a direct result of policies, practices and customs developed, implemented, enforced, encouraged, sanctioned or tolerated by Defendant 2.
