Named in 5 known lawsuits, $1,370,000 total settlements.
Balli, Sharon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 151100/2021,
Supreme Court - New York, February 5, 2021, ended January 26, 2022
$800,000 Settlement
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.
Bond, Russell vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 503965/2015,
Supreme Court - Kings, April 15, 2015, ended May 5, 2016
$15,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On or about January 5, 2014, at approximately 2:00 p.m., Plaintiff (a black male) was standing on the sidewalk in front of 585 Sutter Avenue in Brooklyn. Along with a number of people, Plaintiff was observing NYPD Officer Jonathan Bulzomi, Sergeant Edwin Nuez, and five unidentified NYPD officers arrest another person (also a black male). Plaintiff was at least 30 feet away from the arrest and was not interfering with it in any way. At some point, some of the NYPD officers including Offier Bulzomi approached Plaintiff and proceeded to aggressively push him. When Plaintiff protested the manner in which he was being accosted and handled by the NYPD officers, they promptly unlawfully placed him under arrest. They s...
Wright, Kashawn vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 14CV06873,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, January 6, 2015, ended October 10, 2018
$525,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 5, 2014, Plaintiff was approached by a group of NYPD officers while on the sidewalk in Brooklyn, New York. The officers tackled, kicked, and punched Plaintiff. One officer hit Plaintiff repeatedly with a baton. As a result, Plaintiff suffered two fractures in his right hand. The officers filed charges against Plaintiff that Plaintiff alleges were false. All charges were dismissed.
Boyd, Jasper vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 14CV06922,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, December 9, 2014, ended October 7, 2015
$15,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On November 29, 2011, at approximately 2:45 p.m., plaintiff had just left his Brooklyn apartment building and was on his way to pick up his 7-year-old son from school, when he was unlawfully stopped and questioned by defendant officers Wilson Gonzalez and Chaim Goldgrab. Despite lacking reasonable suspicion, the defendant officers detained plaintiff, frisked him, and issued him two summonses for disorderly conduct based on false allegations that he was being, inter alia, loud and boisterous. All charges against plaintiff were eventually dismissed on February 27, 2012.
