but the important thing was...You can call me Hassan,...or you can call be Hamdy! Not charged????
Think I remember this one as the there was another car load of police who weren’t traffic — they were detectives. The one that shot the kid has a middle eastern Arab name. Could be Muslim.
The driving recklessly, weaving in lanes is a very old cop trick. Impossible to prove or disprove most of the time.
I’m unfamiliar with this case. If the guy really was driving wrecklessly, why the high payout? Maybe he was drunk or high. Was the payout that high because he was a National Guard?
Of course, the off duty cop was asleep. That’s why she couldn’t testify against her fellow cops.
Hassan Hamdy, NYPD Detective Who Shot Unarmed Man, Was Named In Earlier Civil Rights Lawsuits
he NYPD detective who shot and killed an unarmed National Guardsman during a traffic stop early Thursday morning was named in two civil rights complaints that ended in significant payouts by the city, court records show.
Detective Hassan Hamdy, identified by police as the officer who fatally shot Noel Polanco, 22, was one of several officers named in a 2007 brutality lawsuit by a Queens grandmother and her grandson who said they were terrorized by police after being subjected to an illegal search of their home. The suit was settled for $235,000.
Fred Lichtmacher, the plaintiffs’ attorney, said the NYPD moved swiftly to settle the case out of court. Under the terms of the settlement, the officers admitted no fault or liability for the incident.
“The city was very anxious to get rid of this,” Lichtmacher told The Huffington Post. “I never got to see what the cops’ records were like.”
Attempts to reach Hamdy for comment were unsuccessful.
A spokeswoman for New York City’s legal department said Hamdy did not appear to be a “major player” in the Queens brutality case. But the city also said that Hamdy was named in another civil rights complaint that the city settled for $291,000 in 2001, and that details of that case were not immediately available.
Court records do not indicate whether Hamdy was disciplined by the NYPD for his involvement in the 2007 brutality incident.
But according to Dorothy Garcia, 74, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Hamdy was one of several officers who broke down her front door in pursuit of her grandson, who they mistakenly believed was involved in a violent crime.
Garcia identified Hamdy after being shown his photograph by reporters on Friday.
“They stormed up. They were screaming,” Garcia said. She answered the door and the officers demanded to see her grandson, Tyrell Garcia, who was then 23.
When Ms. Garcia refused to let them in her house without a warrant, Hassan and the other officers began forcing their way into the house, she said. The officers broke down the door and chased after Tyrell, who hid in a neighbor’s garage.
According to the lawsuit, the teen surrendered and walked out of the garage peacefully, but was thrown to the ground and beaten by officers. A police dog was allowed to bite him repeatedly, the complaint said.
Several minor criminal charges were filed against Garcia for fleeing the police, but were later dropped, said Lichtmacher, the attorney. Garcia was cleared of any involvement in the crime that prompted the initial search.
“They were extremely aggressive with very little information,” Lichtmacher said. “They had no warrant. It was a very strange incident.”
Lichtmacher, who frequently represents plaintiffs in brutality cases against the NYPD, said he was unaware of Hamdy’s specific role in the 2007 incident. But he said it was unsurprising to see Hamdy involved in another event involving allegations of unjustified use of force.
“We see the same guys over and over,” he said.
A rally in protest of Noel Polanco’s shooting is scheduled for 9 a.m. Saturday morning at the headquarters of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network in Harlem.
The source said that when Polanco’s car was searched, a carpenter’s “screw gun” was found in the driver’s floor area.
A four-volt, black and yellow Ryobi power tool was found in the car, but no weapon.
but the important thing was...A “full measure” of justice wold be for Officer Hamdy to disappear. Forever.
$2.5 mill seems like chump change for the life of a 22 year old.
Yet another instance where criminals pinned to badges commit murder....the government refuses to hold them
accountable and then goes out and STEALS $2.5Million
from the taxpayer AT GUNPOINT...remember all taxes are
collected via threat of violence....to pay off the family
so they can cover up this crime.