Named in 3 known lawsuits, $203,000 total settlements.
Gayle, Javar vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 159268/2025,
Supreme Court - New York, July 24, 2025
Vega, Kemely, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.
Case # 156000/2022,
Supreme Court - New York, July 21, 2022, ended September 12, 2024
$103,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On March 4, 2022, near 204th Street and Broadway in New York, the plaintiffs were unlawfully arrested, detained, assaulted, battered, and subjected to excessive force by defendant police officers while inside a lawfully parked vehicle. The officers approached and asked them to step out without legal justification. Despite complying, the plaintiffs were shoved, arrested, shackled with metal handcuffs, and searched along with their vehicle without being informed of the reason, yielding no contraband. They were made to sit on the freezing sidewalk for half an hour before being locked in an NYPD transport van for about 3.5 hours. The officers then took the plaintiffs to an NYPD precinct where they were subjected to...
English, Devon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 157925/2020,
Supreme Court - New York, October 2, 2020, ended March 24, 2022
$100,000 Settlement
Complaint
Description: On October 7, 2018, plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle near an intersection in Manhattan. Several NYPD officers, including Detective Rhyan Nelson and PO Brandon Gonzalez, unlawfully pulled over the vehicle in which plaintiff was a passenger. Another passenger and the driver were also in the vehicle. The officers falsely accused the driver of running a red light. Although the officers had no probably cause to believe that plaintiff had committed any crime or offense, they forced plaintiff and his two friends out of the car and unlawfully searched them, the vehicle, and its contents. The officers recovered a bag from the vehicle and falsely accused plaintiff of possessing the bag and its contents. A later cou...
