NYPD internal affairs will investigate the two cops who sideswiped a parked SUV and allegedly accused the man sitting inside of hitting their vehicle before arresting him for unlicensed driving, police sources said Friday.
“The case has been referred to IAB,” a senior police official said.
Robert Jackson, 31, was sitting in his girlfriend’s Ford Excursion with the engine off outside his Brownsville home in April 2013 when a police car scraped his gal pal’s ride. Cops then got out and accused Jackson of hitting them, the maintenance worker said in a Brooklyn Supreme Court lawsuit.
“I just wanted them to fix the damage and apologize, but it didn’t turn out that way,” Jackson told The Post. “They were trying to cover it up.”
NYPD cops Christopher Oliver and Shazad Shigri arrested Jackson for destruction of city property, his suit claims – but the cops only officially charged him with unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle because he has a suspended license.
When Oliver and Shigri filled out an incident report they said they struck the SUV – and neither cop was questioned or disciplined after the accident, a police source said.
Surveillance footage shot from a neighbor’s home clearly shows Jackson was parked when the NYPD car plowed into him – and the video also disproves something Oliver said after the collision.
“[Oliver] went to the driver’s side door of [Jackson’s] vehicle and observed the door open and the keys in the ignition,” reads the criminal complaint that charges Jackson with unlicensed operation.
The surveillance footage, however, shows Jackson closing the door and nowhere in the footage does Oliver approach the door.