A criticism claims that an NYPD sergeant bought right into a heated argument with an officer and pulled the lady’s ponytail of their Queens stationhouse.
“You set your hair in a bun or a perp would possibly do that,” Sgt. Nakia Middleton-Home is alleged to have advised Officer Christine Meisner earlier than pulling her hair, in line with a replica of the criticism seen by The Submit.
Meisner, 29, stumbled ahead on account of the hair tug and afterwards complained of “extreme” neck ache, in line with the affidavit.
The criticism acknowledged that Middleton-Home was conscious that Meisner had beforehand suffered a neck harm and had requested for medical consideration.
The occasion occurred on November 1 on the 109th Precinct stationhouse in Flushing, however Vincent Vallelong, president of the Sergeant’s Benevolent Affiliation, claims that it wasn’t reported till two months later.
Nobody was placed on trial.
After the officer was penalised for failing to submit a time without work request, Vallelong claimed Meisner submitted a “false report” towards the sergeant.
“We promote and practice individuals to be supervisors and that’s precisely what the sergeant did — supervise!” he advised The Submit. “If we wish to ship the incorrect message and self-discipline our sergeant for doing her job then inform me what message I ought to ship to all my members throughout the division!”
As well as, Vallelong asserted {that a} video of the alleged hair-pulling “doesn’t display assault”
“The officer didn’t stumble and the sergeant didn’t jerk her again,” he mentioned.
Middleton-Home, 48, has served on the pressure for 17 years. In response to data, she was penalised for utilising a division database for functions unrelated to her job duties in 2018 and forfeited 10 trip days.
When prompted for remark, Middleton-Home hung up.
Meisner, who began working for the company in 2017, didn’t reply to a request for remark instantly.
The circumstance represented the NYPD’s most up-to-date embarrassing prevalence.
Two police recruits have been suspended in December after they have been found participating in sexual exercise within the division’s coaching facility’s restroom.
Javon Latibeaudiere, 26, and Madelin Ramirez Solano, 21, have been named because the couple, who have been reportedly relationship.
On the vacation celebration for her Bronx precinct in December 2021, rookie officer Vera Mekuli gave her lieutenant a raunchy lap dance that was recorded on digicam. Lt. Nick McGarry was instantly despatched to a transit space from the forty fourth Precinct.
A couple of weeks later, the NYPD revised its patrol information to ban intimate ties between supervisors and the individuals they continuously monitor.
After ranting at a barracks of the New Jersey state troopers over a relative’s drunk driving arrest, Mekuli was fired a couple of months later.