2 NYPD policemans will certainly encounter department transgression costs in the deadly capturing of 19-year-old Success Rozario after he had actually called 911 throughout what his family members stated was a psychological distress episode, a cops division spokesperson validated to ABC Information.
Authorities Commissioner Jessica Tisch is billing policemans Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco with making use of too much pressure versus Rozario when they fired him 5 times after they claim he aggressed them with a set of scissors in his home in the Ozone Park area of Queens in March 2024.
Alongi and Cianfrocco were replying to a 911 phone call from Rozario, that was experiencing what his family members stated to be a psychological distress episode, according to released body camera footage.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch talks throughout an interview on Public Security at Municipal Government on June 03, 2025 in New York City City.
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The policemans got in the house, and Rozario at one factor ordered a set of scissors from a chair in the cooking area and performed at the policemans, as his mom, Notan Ava Costa, attempted to limit him, according to police body cam footage. Alongi and Cianfrocco tased Rozario prior to firing him 5 times.
” They fired him with the tasers, and my bro really did not actually decrease,” Utsho Rozario, Success Rozario’s more youthful bro, that existed at the capturing, stated in a meeting. “So among the police officers took out a weapon and fired him as my mom was still embracing him“
At first, cops leaders stated the policemans’ activities had actually been within department standards, as located by a detective in the Private citizen Issue Testimonial Board, the oversight agency that reviews complaints against NYPD officers.
John Chell, the division’s principal of patrol at the time of the capturing, stated the scenario was “fairly frantic, disorderly and harmful right now,” and the policemans were within their authority to tase and fire Rozario to de-escalate the scenario.
Nonetheless, recently, the Private citizen Issue Testimonial Board elected to void the detective that located Alongi and Cianfrocco innocent, discovering both of policemans in infraction of making use of too much pressure and abusing their authority.
Patrick Hendry, the head of state of the Authorities Benevolent Organization, the union that stands for NYPD policemans, thinks the costs versus Alongi and Cianfrocco are unjustified and unjust.
” The board just rubber-stamps its private investigators’ searchings for in nearly every various other situation. However in this situation, they tossed those searchings for away due to the fact that they really did not fit an established result. The information reveals that there are just a few board participants that are ever before ready to stand and make an independent choice based upon the realities and the regulation. The remainder are either as well terrified of the anti-police extremists, or they are extremists themselves. In either case, they have actually robbed these law enforcement agents and all law enforcement agents of the justness assured by the (City) Charter,” Hendry said.
A query right into the capturing by New york city Attorney General Of The United States Letitia James’s workplace is continuous; there have actually been no criminal costs submitted versus them.
