NYC to pay $12 million to former Wall Street trader paralyzed in 2020 police shooting

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NEW YORK — New York City has agreed to pay $12 million to a former Wall Street trader paralyzed in a June 2020 pandemic-era

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in Manhattan’s East Village, the Daily News has learned.

Peyman Bahadoran has been permanently confined to a wheelchair without the use of his legs since he was

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by two NYPD officers just before 7 a.m. June 4, 2020, outside a bodega on Third Ave. near E. 10th St.

Bahadoran was in the midst of a mental health episode and was carrying a ****** in a sheath on his belt when he walked with his small dog to the bodega and got into a confrontation with two officers.

But he had relinquished the ****** in the store and was unarmed when he was shot outside the deli by 9th Precinct Officers Jillian Suarez and Bryan Rozanski.

The NYPD determined the ********* was “within guidelines.” But taxpayers will now have to foot the massive bill for Bahadoran’s continuing medical care and quality of life.

“The Law Department recognized the gravity of what happened, but unfortunately the NYPD did not,” said Earl Ward, Bahadoran’s lawyer who

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Nicholas Paolucci, a Law Department spokesman, said, “This outcome brings a resolution to all parties.”

The city tried to have the lawsuit dismissed, arguing in part the officers felt in ***** for their lives, but in a Nov. 8, 2023, ruling, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Jesse Furman

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. “It is undisputed that he was unarmed at the time of the *********,” Furman wrote.

The judge noted both Suarez and Rozanski said in depositions they “did not see Bahadoran carrying a ****** immediately before they shot him.” Video shows that Lt. Luis Machado, the top-ranking cop on the scene, was holstering his firearm as Suarez and Rozanski fired theirs.

Machado and another cop, Michael Murphy, each said in depositions they saw that Bahadoran was unarmed.

Bahadoran, now 59, is paralyzed below his waist but continues to suffer substantial pain despite the paralysis, Ward said. He is unable to work and has to use a colostomy bag.

“It’s a very difficult and hard life,” Ward added. “He suffers every day as a result of what happened to him.”

Suarez,

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, was transferred to a coveted role in the NYPD ****** Scene Unit in October 2022.

As the settlement talks were reaching a climax earlier in 2024, Suarez was

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and promoted again to detective third grade in May, NYPD personnel records show.

Rozanski, still an officer, was transferred in November 2023 to the NYPD’s public information office, also considered a desirable post, the records show.

On the day of the incident, Bahadoran left his apartment at about 6:30 a.m. with his small dog and a 12-inch Defender X-Treme ****** in a sheath attached to his belt and walked to the Healthy Green Gourmet Deli.

He was in the midst of a manic episode exacerbated by nightly George Floyd protests outside his apartment, The News previously reported.

“I was manic, paranoid, scared, anxious,” Bahadoran told The News back in July 2020. “You are watching everything. You are doing things that are not normal.”

As he entered the deli, Suarez and her partner Melissa Brown of the 9th Precinct also entered,

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. Bahadoran began yelling at Brown and drew the ****** and began waving it around and walking toward Brown.

Brown fired her Taser, but the prongs didn’t reach Bahadoran’s skin. Suarez took a couple of steps toward Bahadoran from behind him, then backed up and called for help from the doorway.

Brown moved behind the counter. Bahadoran then demanded a pack of cigarettes from the deli clerk and placed the ****** on the counter.

The store employee grabbed the ****** and handed it to Brown. Bahadoran, holding only a water bottle, then turned toward Suarez and shoved her backward out of the store.

Officers Rozanski and Murphy and Lt. Machado then came running across the intersection. Video shows Bahadoran lunged at Suarez as she fearfully screamed, “Move back!” three times. Bahadoran turned his back on Suarez and lunged at Machado.

Rozanski and Suarez then each fired one shot striking Bahadoran in the lower back and left arm. Machado is seen in video holstering his weapons, suggesting he did not believe Bahadoran was a threat.

Bahadoran was charged with robbery and menacing a police officer. Those charges were later dismissed.

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