Named in 10 known lawsuits, $407,700 total settlements.
Spruill, Jeremiah vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 21CV00181,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, January 26, 2021
Complaint
Mccray, Aaron, et al. vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 025171/2019,
Supreme Court - Bronx, May 3, 2019, ended August 11, 2020
$32,500 Settlement
Bates, Steven vs Fleming, Christopher, et al.
Case # 15CV09506,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, December 1, 2016, ended February 24, 2017
$6,700 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On January 8, 2015, multiple police officers, including police officer Sid Caesar, stopped and searched the plaintiff. The police did not find anything. Plaintiff asked officers why they stopped him, and police told him to stop talking and threw him against a wall, grabbed and twisted his arms, and handcuffed the plaintiff in tight handcuffs which created pain and left marks on his wrists. The officers then drove aggressively to the 25th precinct without restraining and protecting the plaintiff with a seatbelt, which caused the plaintiff to injure his head, neck, body, and limbs. The plaintiff waited for arraignment for 24 hours, and his charge of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree was ...
Armstrong, Joshua vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 158455/2016,
Supreme Court - New York, November 16, 2016, ended April 10, 2020
$40,000 Settlement
White, Anthony, et al. vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 16CV06925,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, October 26, 2016, ended October 25, 2019
$36,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On June 4, 2015, plaintiffs were seated in a parked motor vehicle when defendant officers ordered plaintiffs out of the vehicle, arrested and tightly handcuffed them despite lacking probable cause. Plaintiffs were unlawfully searched and strip-searched. Criminal proceedings were commenced against plaintiffs based on false evidence created and manufactured by defendant officers. All charges were ultimately dimissed.
Alvarez, Kevin vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV08063,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, November 4, 2015, ended June 23, 2016
$30,500 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Plaintiff was outside standing next to someone who had been previously apprehended in a buy and bust at that location. Officers then approached Plaintiff, tightly handcuffed him, searched him, and taken into custody. Plaintiff was charged with 220.39. UC-0039 testified against Plaintiff and the DA's office doubted his testimony, resulting in dismissal of the indictment.
Ortiz, Simon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV02915,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, April 15, 2015, ended November 3, 2015
$12,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On July 11, 2014, Plaintiff Simon Ortiz was present in his local Harlem bodega. Defendant police officer Jeff Harris approached Plaintiff and asked "Do you know who I am?" Plaintiff did not know who Harris was, and so ignored him. Defendant Harris began shouting "Do you know who I am?" at Plaintiff. Harris then stuck his hands inside Plaintiff's pocket, planted an illicit substance in the pocket, pulled the substance out, and stated "look what I got here." Plaintiff was then violently removed from the bodega, thrown against the building, and very tightly handcuffed. Plaintiff was taken to a local precinct, strip-searched, held for 24 hours, and charged with possession of heroin. After numerous court appe...
Edwards, Glenn, et al. vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 17CV02566,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, March 26, 2015, ended June 4, 2019
$200,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On May 8, 2014, P.O.s Jamal Hairston, Oscar Fernandez, Robert Kelly, Evaristus Uke, and Keith Carpenter forcibly entered plaintiffs' residence. They physically seized plaintiffs, pointed weapons at them, forced them to the ground, and forcibly applied handcuffs to them. The officers kept plaintiffs handcuffed for over three hours. One of the plaintiffs was naked when the officers entered the apartment and handcuffed her, and the officers compelled her to remain naked. The officers initiated false criminal charges against plaintiffs, and P.O. Hairston made false statements to the DA in support of those charges. The officers also initiated a civil action with Child Protective Services against plaintiffs, fal...
Siler, Omar vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV00189,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, January 13, 2015, ended June 29, 2015
$17,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On May 31, 2014, the Plaintiff, Mr. Omar Siler, was sitting outside his friend's apartment building, waiting to be buzzed into the building. A man leaving the building held the door open for Mr. Siler, and as Mr. Siler approached the door, a Defendant undercover NYPD officer in plain clothes, who did not identify himself, chased Mr. Siler into the building, up to the roof, and down the fire escape to the building's backyard. Once Mr. Siler reached the backyard, a group of individual defendant officers standing behind a gate shouted at him to get on the ground, while one pointed his gun at him. Mr. Siler lay on the ground. For a few minutes, the defendants tried to figure out how to get around the gate and into ...
Torres, Marc Anthony vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 14CV00502,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY, January 31, 2014, ended August 1, 2014
$33,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: Defendant Plainclothes Officers stopped Plaintiff on the street and arrested him, took him to the 25th precinct and strip-searched him, and charged him with 220.39(1) crim sale of a controlled substance in the 3rd degree, which were later dismissed by the DA.