NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 2:30 AM
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A Brooklyn cop caught on video shoving a quality of life offender into a building wall has been docked 10 vacation days, the Daily News has learned.
The Civilian Complaint Review Board in a departmental trial last year said Officer Keith Dsouza violated police rules in 2012 by beating college art student Ryan Scails about the head with his collapsible baton.
Scails ran when Dsouza and his partner saw him urinating against the wall of a Red Hook building.
Police caught up to Dsouza about 3 blocks away, at which point grainy surveillance video shows the 250-pound officer shoving the 155-pound Scails into a wall.
Charges against Ryan Scails were dropped after a federal lawsuit and complaint was made.
Scails, who had been at a Fourth of July party earlier in the night and had four drinks, was bloodied in the confrontation and needed stitches on his leg and behind one ear.
He was charged with resisting arrest, public urination and disorderly conduct, but the charges were dropped and he filed a federal lawsuit and a CCRB complaint.
The suit is pending.
The CCRB substantiated the complaint and Dsouza, a cops since 2007, went to trial.
Dsouza denied striking Scails about the head.
Scails testified he was wrong to run but said that after he gave up and was shoved by Dsouza the cop’s partner pinned him to the ground and he was unable to free his hand to fully surrender.
CCRB prosecutor Heather Cook recommended a 7-day penalty, but Assistant Commissioner of Trials Claudia Daniels-DePeyster (cq) took it a step further, recommending 10 days, which Police Commissioner Bill Bratton recently rubber-stamped.
CCRB Executive Director Mina Malik called it “a just result.”
“The crux of this case was the video evidence which showed numerous blows to the head, clearly an excessive use of force,” she said. Now 27, Scails could not be reached for comment.
Dsouza and his lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
