Victim Had Yelled Obscenity at Defendant
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a former New York City Police Sergeant has pleaded guilty to Official Misconduct for his unauthorized use of an NYPD issued Taser on a civilian who had hurled an obscene taunt at him in 2021.
District Attorney Clark said, “The former member of the NYPD used a Taser multiple times on a man who had yelled an obscenity at him, even though the man was not resisting arrest. This plea illustrates that police officers will be held accountable for such misconduct.”
The defendant, Jamar Lamey, 43, a former NYPD Sergeant assigned to the 40th Precinct in the Bronx, was sentenced on November 12, 2024, to a Conditional Discharge after pleading guilty to Official Misconduct before Bronx Criminal Court Judge Anna Mikhaleva. A plea to Official Misconduct bars the defendant from employment with the NYPD.
According to the investigation, on May 27, 2021, at approximately 1:39 a.m., the defendant and multiple police officers from the 40th Precinct responded to the vicinity of 585 Jackson Avenue where a large group of people were gathered for a memorial to a slain friend. The defendant ordered them to disperse. As a 26-year-old man was leaving he yelled an obscene remark at Lamey, who pursued the man across the street, and without warning, used the Taser on the man’s back causing him to fall. As police officers assisted the victim to his feet to place him under arrest, the defendant deployed his Taser four additional times despite the victim’s lack of resistance. The victim suffered substantial pain to his body, a bleeding laceration to his forearm and elbow, a swollen finger, and pain in his back where the Taser probes were lodged.
District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Sergeant Keith Blunt and NYPD Lieutenant Steven Alfano of the Internal Affairs Bureau for their work on the case.
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