Named in 5 known lawsuits, $83,500 total settlements.
Woods, Clarence vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 816273/2022E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, December 15, 2022, ended December 20, 2024
$22,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On April 13, 2019, Clarence Woods (Plaintiff) was in the custody of the NYPD (Defendants) and was rear cuffed. Plaintiff was standing at the rear side of a passenger vehicle surrounded by several police officers. Defendants were assaulting plaintiff by pressing the latter’s body firmly upon a vehicle to making it difficult for Plaintiff to breathe, used a taser upon Plaintiff, as well as handcuffed Plaintiff in an excessively tight manner. Several Defendants, who did not participate in the incident, but were otherwise present and observed the violation of Plaintiff’s constitutional rights failed to intercede on Plaintiff’s behalf.
Zied, Ritishea vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 033175/2019E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, November 7, 2019, ended March 14, 2022
$40,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On April 13, 2019 at 1:30 AM, Plaintiff Ritishea Zied was near Marion Avenue and East 187th Street, Bronx, when Defendants Officer Robert Wichers, Officer John Doe, Officer John Roe, Sergeant Bryan Ortiz, Officer Jonathan Gonzalez, Officer Yvonne Rosario, Officer Yaowen Liu, Officer Michael O'Connor, Officer Edin Bacovic, Officer Chad Kirk and Officer Tatiana Latorre summarily stopped, searched, grabbed, handcuffed, assaulted, battered, and detained him using excessive force. Plaintiff was taken to an unidentified precinct and to the Bronx Criminal Courthouse. While in Defendant Officer's custody, Plaintiff was subjected to a strip search and assault of her head, neck, back, body, and limbs. Plaintiff was incar...
Bido, Michael vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 033620/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, December 20, 2018, ended December 3, 2019
$13,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about September 11, 2017 at approximately 1:00 a.m., at or near the front of 570 East 191st Street, Bronx New York, Plaintiff was improperly detained, questioned, searched, arrested and confined without proper justification. Plaintiff received severe permanent injuries with accompanying physical and mental pain and suffering. Defendant P.O. Michael O'Connor was provided information that Plaintiff had engaged in conduct that was legal and P.O. Michael O'Connor falsely asserted that Plaintiff nonetheless committed a crime. P.O. Michael O'Connor and/or Officer(s) John and James Doe provided false information to the prosecutor and initiated a malicious prosecution against Plaintiff. Plaintiff made appearances...
Kelly, Kenneth vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 13CV03874,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, June 11, 2013, ended February 17, 2014
$7,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 7, 2010, Plaintiff was arrested without cause. Plaintiff went to go visit his friend, and as he was climbing the stairs to his friends’ residence was arrested. He was then subject to an illegal search, and then was taken to the precinct where he was strip searched. Plaintiff was threatened by the officers to give them what was in his “f****g a**” or that they would take it by force. When Plaintiff informed the officers that he had nothing in his “a**:, the officers took him to a cell and handcuffed him upside down. Plaintiff was left in that position for hours. Plaintiff was then taken, against his will, to the hospital where officers demanded that the doctors give him medication to move his bowels. ...
Davidson, Alvin vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 301524/2012,
Supreme Court - Bronx, February 27, 2012, ended June 8, 2016
Zero Disposition