New surveillance footage of the violent brawl between two NYPD narcotics detectives and a mistakenly identified suspect acquired by the Daily News provides additional insight into the moments leading up the the clash that went viral in a video that shocked the city.
The footage, taken from the surveillance cameras inside the BK Wine Depot in Boerum Hill on Tuesday, shows Timothy Brown walking down an aisle inside the store with a bottle of wine in his hand before Detectives Volkan Maden and Michael Algerio approach him.
The officers, wearing NYPD vests, flank Brown, 46, as they speak to him briefly before trying to place him in handcuffs.
As Detective Maden takes the wine bottle from him and the officers reach for his wrists, Brown resists and yanks his arms back, the video shows. Each cop then grabs one of Brown’s arms as they place him against a refrigerated case.
Brown again pulls his hands away from the cops before Maden starts punching him.
As they continue to struggle, Maden pushes Brown’s head into a glass refrigerator door as both cops repeatedly hit him. A few moments later, Brown, still struggling with detectives, ends up falling head first into a wine bottle display, sending more than a dozen bottles smashing onto the store floor, the video shows.
The cops are seen dragging Brown on the floor, over the glass bottles. Video shot by witness Abelee Moran, which quickly went viral on social media, shows the detectives continue to strike Brown, who was bleeding from a deep cut to his leg, as they try to cuff his hands behind his back.
Both Maden and Agerio were placed on modified duty and stripped of their guns and shields when Moran’s video caught the attention of Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Mamdani.
Mamdani said they used violence that is “extremely disturbing and unacceptable.”
But Scott Munro, head of the NYPD Detectives’ Endowment Association, on Wednesday defended the cops actions in the video, urging people not to rush to judgement as NYPD Internal Affairs investigates.
“Narcotics detectives arrest you and tell you to put your hands behind your back and you don’t comply, what do you think happens?” Munro said.
The detectives thought Brown was involved in an undercover drug deal in the area, but they later determined that the security guard, who had just gotten out of work, had nothing to do with the deal.
Police gave Brown a desk appearance ticket for resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration, but the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office said they were declining to prosecute the charges. A call to Brown for comment on Friday was not immediately returned.
Both detectives made 349 felony arrests between them during their careers — but they have also been accused of miscondict a number of times, including excessive force, records show.
Maden has 12 substantiated allegations against him, including two in which he was charged by the Civilian Complaint Review Board and prosecuted in the NYPD trial room. Maden has been named in two lawsuits, both also involving other officers, that settled for $14,000.
Algerio has one substantiated CCRB complaint, for abuse of authority, records show. He was also a named defendant, with other officers, in two lawsuits that were settled.
