The two NYPD cops caught on video repeatedly punching a mistakenly identified suspect in a Brooklyn liquor store have made 349 felony arrests between them during their careers — and have been accused numerous times of misconduct, including excessive force, records show.
Det. Volkan Maden, a 12-year veteran, and Det. Michael Algerio, a 14-year veteran, were placed on modified duty and stripped of their guns and shields after video of their arrest of Timothy Brown, 46, went viral.
Mayor Mamdani said they used violence that is “extremely disturbing and unacceptable.”
Both detectives have reputations as active cops, Maden with 254 felony arrests and 22 citations for good police work, Algerio with 95 felony arrests and three citations, 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.
In that 2024 case, Maden was found guilty by an NYPD administrative judge and docked 13 days pay for both allegations, that he conducted a street stop in which he handcuffed a man without good reason and then issued him what the CCRB called a “retaliatory” summons for disorderly conduct, according to records.
Maden has also lost several days pay for other infractions, including not terminating a dangerous vehicle pursuit, conducting an improper vehicle search and using foul language, records show.
Maden has been named in two lawsuits, both also involving other officers, that settled for $14,000.
One accuser said officers conducted an illegal car stop and search, saying marijuana was found in plain view, then arresting him on trumped up charges that were later dismissed. The case settled for $10,000
The other accuser, who settled his suit for $4,000, said Maden and other officers arrested him for an issue involving an order of protection, beat him up, then released him before he was arraigned.
A pending suit accuses Maden and other officers of repeatedly bumping the accuser’s dirt bike with a police car then shocking him with a Taser and beating him.
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.
Street vendor Yuhua Liu , who said Algerio and another cop roughed him up during an arrest in Times Square, got $18,000, records show.
Another man got $20,090 after accusing police of roughing him up during an arrest.
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. On Thursday, he had no comment on the past lawsuits and allegations against the two detectives.
The 7-minute, 57-second cell phone clip recorded by a witness Tuesday shows the detectives grappling with Brown inside BK Wine Depot in Boerum Hill.
They punch him repeated in the face and body, slamming him into a display of wine bottles as they accuse him of not complying with their orders to put his hands behind his back. Brown was cut on his leg by the broken glass.
Later in the video, Maden can be seen stomping his foot near Brown’s head though it’s not clear from the video if he made contact with Brown, who says he suffered a broken nose.
NYPD charges against Brown of obstructing governmental administration and resisting arrest were quickly dismissed by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.
Brown was wearing clothes similar to a man seen taking money from a drug dealer who sold crack to an undercover nearby, but was later determined not to be the suspected accomplice cops were looking for.