Ronnie Rivera

Lawsuits

Named in 9 known lawsuits, $336,500 total settlements.

Albright, Shakeeth vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 512836/2022, Supreme Court - Kings, May 17, 2022
Complaint
Description: On May 3, 2019, P.O.s approached the Plaintiff, who was lawfully present on the second floor of the privately owned apartment in Brooklyn. Without factual basis that the Plaintiff violated the law; P.O.s asked the Plaintiff to cooperate with the NY City Police Dpt. The plaintiff was lawfully in the building as a guest of a tenant in the building. P.O.s unlawfully searched for the Plaintiff without probable cause. Without finding any, P.O.s transported the Plaintiff to the 67th Precinct against his will. P.O.s unlawfully searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and detained Plaintiff in holding cells with many other prisoners in each cell. Based on the fabricated allegations, Plaintiff was arraigned in Kings Count...

Nicholson, Jamel vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 512835/2022, Supreme Court - Kings, May 17, 2022
Complaint
Description: On May 3, 2019, P.O.s approached the Plaintiff, who was lawfully present on the second floor of the privately owned apartment in Brooklyn. Without factual basis that the Plaintiff violated the law, P.O.s asked the Plaintiff to cooperate with the NY City Police Dpt. The plaintiff was lawfully in the building as a guest of a tenant in the building. Nonetheless, P.O.s unlawfully searched for the Plaintiff without probable cause. Without finding any, P.O.s transported the Plaintiff to the 67th Precinct against his will. P.O.s unlawfully searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and detained Plaintiff in holding cells with many other prisoners in each cell. Based on the fabricated allegations, Plaintiff was arraigned i...

Martin, Jerelle vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 519452/2021, Supreme Court - Kings, August 4, 2021, ended April 14, 2022
$7,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 14, 2020, at approximately 3:00 p.m., plaintiff JERELLE MARTIN, while lawfully in the vicinity of 1111 Rutland Road in Brooklyn, New York, was subject to an unlawful stop, question, frisk, search, false arrest, and false imprisonment by the defendant New York City police officers. The officers in particular were Aurel Hoxha (Shield No. 13176) and Officer Ronnie Rivera (10655) and 10 unnamed officers. In addition, Plaintiff was subjected to an assault, battery, and use of excessive force by the defendant Officers, causing him to suffer physical as well as emotional and mental injuries. During Plaintiff's detainment, Plaintiff was denied medical treatment for his bleeding face, arms, and hands, but dec...

Caille, Dieuverson vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 515974/2021, Supreme Court - Kings, July 1, 2021
Complaint
Description: On August 22, 2019, plaintiff, an adult Black or African American male, was walking peacefully on the street with friends. Defendant-officers, including Ronnie Rivera (Shield No. 10655), Kristopher Lopez (Shield No. 3351), and Joseph Grimm, aggressively approached plaintiff. Without probable cause or reasonable suspicion, defendants unlawfully questioned plaintiff regarding illegal activity. Defendants' actions arose due to plaintiff's status as a Black or African American male. Subsequently, defendants violently grabbed plaintiff and dragged plaintiff by his hair, before tightly handcuffing the plaintiff. Defendants proceeded to strike plaintiff's body. Plaintiff was transported by defendants where he was pr...

Baptiste, Richred vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 515081/2021, Supreme Court - Kings, June 24, 2021
Complaint
Description: On May 3, 2019, Plaintiff Richred Baptiste was lawfully present on the second floor of the privately owned apartment building when Defendants Police Officers unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisked, searched and falsely arrested/imprisoned Plaintiff for allegedly Trespassing into the apartment building where Plaintiff was lawfully visiting a friend. Defendants approached Plaintiff and ordered him to provide them with identification when Plaintiff was visiting a friend and was lawfully present with friends in the hallway on the second floor of the apartment building. Plaintiff complied with Defendants and provided them with his identification. Defendants claim that they were not satisfied with Plaintiff’s explan...

Decamp, Isaiah vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 503381/2021, Supreme Court - Kings, February 11, 2021
Complaint
Description: On May 3, 2019 at 10:00 PM, Plaintiff was unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisked, and searched by unnamed Defendant POs in a public hallway of a privately owned apartment complex at which Plaintiff was a resident. The Defendant POs did not ask Plaintiff to voluntarily cooperate and instead demanded Plaintiff's identification. Plaintiff informed Defendant POs that he was lawfully in the building and provided them with his identification card that showed that he was a resident of the apartment complex. Despite this information, Defendant POs falsely arrested Plaintiff for trespassing and detained Plaintiff in a holding cell for 25.5 hours prior to arraignment. Defendant POs failed to intervene to stop fellow Def...

Vazquez, Anthony vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 502535/2021, Supreme Court - Kings, February 9, 2021
Complaint
Description: On May 3, 2019, while lawfully present on the second floor of a privately owned apartment building at 3405 Foster Avenue in Brooklyn, NY, visiting a friend, the plaintiff was unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisked, searched, arrested, and detained by the defendants without legal justification. Despite providing identification and explaining that he was a guest of a tenant, the defendants unlawfully searched the plaintiff, yielding nothing illegal, and falsely arrested him for trespassing. The plaintiff was transported to the 67th precinct, where he was unlawfully searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and detained in a holding cell for many hours. He was then taken to Kings County Central Booking, where the un...

Hall, Justin vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 14CV07463, U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, January 13, 2015, ended June 5, 2017
$325,000 Settlement
Complaint, Second Amended Complaint
Description: On July 4th, 2014, Plaintiff, Justin Hall, was standing close to the apartment building where he lived in Brooklyn, NY. An acquaintance of Plaintiff had just taken a "Roman Candle" style firecracker out of the possession of a group of young children playing in the area. Plaintiff was not in the possession of any fireworks. Plaintiff then witnessed two NYPD officers walking towards him, including Defendant PO Ryan O'Connor. Out of precaution, to avoid being implicated in the possession of a firecracker by his friend, Plaintiff began to walk towards his apartment building. At this point, Defendant POs, including Ryan O'Connor, Ronnie Rivera, and Wilfredo Ramos, ran up to Plaintiff and aggressively slammed him int...

Lewis, Ryan vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 14CV04354, U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, July 22, 2014, ended January 22, 2015
$4,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 30, 2014, plaintiff, a dark-skinned male, was in a supermarket in Queens charging his cell phone. Police entered and asked him to leave. Plaintiff left, but he realized he left his phone in the store and reentered to collect it. Defendant NYPD Officer Rivera noticed this, and he arrested plaintiff. Defendants then filed a false report that plaintiff had threatened the store owner's family with hand gestures, causing plaintiff to be criminally charged. These charges were dismissed in April 2004.