$540M suit over bust rips NYPDBy LEONARD GREENE, NY Post
A Queens man was falsely arrested on orders from an NYPD sergeant in retaliation for testifying against the cop's girlfriend -- and suffered a stroke while in custody after he was ignored for hours, according to a bombshell $540 million lawsuit filed yesterday.
Gerardo Mayol was asked by his landlord to testify against neighbor Jessica Varney in her eviction case in January 2009.
Varney, 24, threatened to get back at Mayol if he ratted on her -- and a month after his testimony, two officers, ordered by Varney's boyfriend, Sgt. Robert Ellington, came in the middle of the night to nab him on a bogus charge of stalking her, the Brooklyn federal suit alleges.
Once in a holding cell at the 104th Precinct station house, Mayol, 59, complained that he had to use the bathroom and Ellington responded, "Shut the f- - - up! I'll put my f- - -ing foot up your ass," according to the suit, which names the NYPD, the city, Varney and Ellington.
Later, Mayol experienced feeling shortness of breath and numbness, but cops didn't call an ambulance until after he collapsed, said his lawyer, Joseph Tacopina.
All charges were eventually dropped against Mayol -- who still slurs his words and walks unsteadily.
17 comments:
OMG! this totally sucks for this man and i hope he gets to have the officers arrested!! worst pct in the city and this just proved it.
Maspeth Mom says..
Shit rolls down hill. Clean house from the top to the bottom. Top Command should be fired ASAP. Lower rank dispersed throughto the other boros.
Good luck to the officer who suffered the stroke - hope he makes a full recovery and can move on with his life.
The jerks who let that happen to him, will only have memories of their freedom to keep them company in their jail cell.
Unfortunately this sort of thing has always gone-on. It stems from an "us against them" -attitude and a feeling of entitlement.
Police are this way all over the world, the key to whether they are any good or not is determined by how short a leash they are kept on.
Someday we'll finally override the pba's objections and have a -real- civilian complaint review board.
An old but pertinent likk:
http://gothamist.com/2009/03/12/nypd_paid_35_million_to_settle_laws.php
I must have missed the part where the court found these allegations to be true. Something smells in this guy's story.
What smells? Charges were dropped against him and I can confirm that Ellington is gone.
Charges get dropped all the time by the city's five DA offices. That alone is NAVER proof of complete innocence.
So Ellington is gone. Meaning? Fired, indicted? Retired? Administratively reassigned?
Ellington was likely re-assigned to some other retirement Pct.
Someday we'll finally override the pba's objections and have a -real- civilian complaint review board.
You mean as opposed to the complete bullshit one in place now that's 100% in favor of the complaining citizen?
I have 2 complaints against me, both incidents occurred on days i was not on duty. One, in fact, occurred while I was on vacation out of the country. I have an easy to remember name, two different (not so surprisingly related!) lovely citizens claimed I shoved them to the ground on different days. Although it was proven that I was not on duty at the time of the "incidents", these complaints will forever remain on my record.
Yep. Fair.
Mayol's testimony against Varney is on the record. If can be shown that Ellington is/was Varney's girlfriend, then everything else necessary to show this was a false arrest with tragic consequences is on the record as well. It seems like a good case and actually, nothing smells to me from the complainant's side.
With a police department of 35,000 your gonna get a couple of bad apples... A very unfortunate and disappointing event to hear about tho
I hope Girly-poo is evicted so fast that her ass bounces when it hits the ground.
Remember this blast from the past:
http://oceanbeachpoliceabuse.blogspot.com/
Terrible consequences there too because police ignored signs of serious injury.
Most cops will defend eachother no matter what the charges or amount of evidence in the case. That is why im not surprised to those few cops who dared defend a case like this as horrible as it is because in their eyes they can do no wrong... its sad really. I don't want to make a blanket statement and put all cops under this, because there are a few good apples out there, majority of them with experience that truly appreciate the reason why they put on the uniform. Unfortunately that number of officers is the minority rather than the majority...
104 is useless, its always been that way. It kind of like a safe rubber room for those about to retire and PU that pension
The Sgt is an Asshole,the cops that obeyed an obvious unlawful order are bigger ones!
You mean as opposed to the complete bullshit one in place now that's 100% in favor of the complaining citizen?
I have 2 complaints against me, both incidents occurred on days i was not on duty. One, in fact, occurred while I was on vacation out of the country. I have an easy to remember name, two different (not so surprisingly related!) lovely citizens claimed I shoved them to the ground on different days. Although it was proven that I was not on duty at the time of the "incidents", these complaints will forever remain on my record.
Yep. Fair.
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What would be fair is if you turned in your "brothers" and cleand up your own house.
And you wonder why the public no longer respects police!
This is bull. The "innocent" man is a con-artist, swindling people al his life. Everyone who knows him considers him to be a scheming, low life, con-artist who has always taken advantage of situations. The likely-hood is that he tried getting in Vianey's pants, tried, got rejected, then conspired to get her evicted. Sick of his crap, she got her boy-friend to shake him off her ass and maybe it got out of hand. Shame on all of them. Bottom line- this scumbag is the luckiest slime-ball ever. He's now suing the taxpayers of NYC for some ridiculous amount, over $100 million. At 60ish, with no education, no decency, no ethics, no prospects, aging fact and running out of people he can swindle, this is his last desperate attempt to live without working. You can't get something for nothing!
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