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NYPD sergeant fired for putting cuffed, shackled prisoner in chokehold, slamming him to cell floor: documents

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AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 09, 2021 at 10:23 pmA veteran NYPD sergeant has been fired after he was found guilty at a department trial of using a chokehold on a rear-handcuffed, shackled prisoner in a Brooklyn precinct holding cell earlier this year.Sgt. Fitzroy Vigilance was sacked Feb. 12, according to police discipline records AdvertisementVigilance, 46, was stationed to Brooklyn’s 71st Precinct stationhouse Jan. 3 when he pinned an unruly prisoner to his holding cell wall, grabbed him under his chin and slammed him to the floor, causing a bleeding head wound. by on ScribdThe 23-year NYPD veteran was working as the desk officer Jan. 3 when the prisoner was brought into the precinct, his hands cuffed behind his back. The prisoner, who’s not named in the released documents, flipped out because he didn’t want to share a holding cell with another man.AdvertisementHe cursed and threatened several officers, who led him into the cell while the other prisoner was in the bathroom, and demanded to fight the cops. Cops then shackled his legs.When the prisoner blocked his cellmate from returning to the cell, Vigilance stepped in and shoved him twice, put his hand under the prisoner’s jaw and told him to stop this “bulls---,” according to the trial documents. Vigilance pinned the prisoner against a side wall and pushed him to the floor so hard the man hit his head.As the prisoner bled profusely from a wound that needed seven stitches to close, Vigilance kept yelling at him to to stop the “bulls---,” according to the trial documents.The prisoner never complained about being put in a chokehold, but a camera in a cell and a fellow officer’s body camera captured Vigilance’s brutal outburst, according to the documents.WeekdaysCatch up on the day’s top five stories every weekday afternoon. &gt; Vigilance and his lawyer, Andrew Quinn of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, argued the maneuver he used wasn’t a chokehold, since he didn’t put his hand on the prisoner’s neck or throat.Nancy Ryan, the NYPD’s Assistant Deputy Commissioner of Trials, disagreed, and pointed out that the prisoner was never a risk to the officers in the precinct, despite his threats.“He was not in a position to be able to carry out those threats while alone, handcuffed, and shackled in a cell,” she wrote in her Feb. 9 decision.She called for his firing, saying the chokehold alone was enough to warrant his dismissal, and pointed to a past 2014 disciplinary case in which he was docked 30 days for two fights with a family member.AdvertisementNYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea agreed, dismissing him from the force Feb. 12.“Sgt. Vigilance was and is extremely well-respected among his peers,” said Quinn. “Unfortunately, Commissioner Shea decided the appropriate penalty was termination. We are considering out legal options.”It’s not clear if Vigilance will face prosecution under the state or city’s anti-police chokehold laws. Advertisement

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 09, 2021 at 10:23 pmA veteran NYPD sergeant has been fired after he was found guilty at a department trial of using a chokehold on a rear-handcuffed, shackled prisoner in a Brooklyn precinct holding cell earlier this year.Sgt. Fitzroy Vigilance was sacked Feb. 12, according to police discipline records AdvertisementVigilance, 46, was stationed to Brooklyn’s 71st Precinct stationhouse Jan. 3 when he pinned an unruly prisoner to his holding cell wall, grabbed him under his chin and slammed him to the floor, causing a bleeding head wound. by on ScribdThe...

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