Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Hey, how doing? It's your boy, Steven Lee. And I'm here at System Unfiltered with Tyson Clutchfield from LAPD. So go ahead, sister, take it away. Introduce yourself. Tell us what you've been through.
Taisyn: Yes. Hi everyone, my name is Tyson Crutchfield. It's LA County, but I was with Pasadena PD. ⁓ So ⁓ little bit about myself. I was suing the city of Pasadena, the Pasadena Police Department for harassment, discrimination, whistleblower retaliation.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Okay.
Taisyn: What happened was back in February 2023, I responded to my partner who said he was out on a 415 fight. We didn't know if he was in. 415 is like a is a disturbance call. And so we didn't know if he was actually.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: What's a 415? Is it a salt?
Taisyn: in the disturbance, like if he was actually fighting if he just on viewed it. So supervisor authorizes the units to respond. Code three, which is lights and sirens ⁓ because the situation. You can kind of tell his stress inoculation was up. so this incident ⁓ took place.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: So that's like a police officer needs help like 1085 for us in NYPD or 1013. Okay.
Taisyn: Yeah, when the supervisor says like units respond code three, it's just because it could be an officer safety. We don't know if he's being ambushed. Like I said, we didn't really know what was happening. So when me and my partner responded, where this incident took place was distance from the main station. Pasadena has about three or four substations. ⁓ So and my partner, we were at a substation the whole night.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right.
Taisyn: We were working on a rape case, you know, that's a shift killer. ⁓ there the whole night and we to the scene from the which is about three minutes, code three, five minutes if you're not running Well, because of where the incident was taking place and where the main station was, some of the officers actually ran out on foot and responded to the scene. This family, I'll give you some background. The family that the officer was saying he was out on the 415 on, father, it's two boys, and their mom, their father got killed by the Altadena Sheriff's Department in an OIS. So that's officer involved shooting. It was about month prior to my incident.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mmm.
Taisyn: Pasadena is mutual aid to the sheriff's department, especially Alta Dena because we are almost borderline jurisdiction. when they had this officer involved shooting, some the Pasadena officers responded as mutual aid. So one the officers will reference him as Officer P. He responded to this incident back in January with the Alta Dena sheriff's OIS. He had a run in ⁓ with the that happened to be the same family in my incident. So I guess he was, yeah, he was mouthing all.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ wow. So this family already had like bad blood with the sheriff's department with good reason, right? And this time you're on a job for how long? You're a police officer for how long?
Taisyn: with. Mm-hmm. Yeah. at this time, it's been like two and a half years. I was still a probationer officer. So, ⁓ at will employee. I was about three or four months away from getting off probation. So the incident happened in February. I was going to be getting off probation in May. So,
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Okay. Okay. Uh-huh. Okay.
Taisyn: So this officer back in January, the Pasadena cop, he responds to this. gets told to leave the scene by the Altadena sheriff deputies because he's escalating that scene. So forward, February, which is my incident, me and partner, respond to the scene and we're there. ⁓ We get there little late because like I said, many people ran from actual station where we were in running distance.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: When I got to the scene, saw everybody was parked all crazy because you know how code 3 car calls be. You're just going in hot. You're parking crazy. I was like, So I was like, OK, it looks like from what I'm observing, it looks like the scene is somewhat code 4, good to go. Let me move the out of the way so we don't get a now traffic back up. And then I'll go see what's going on, they need help with. Because at this time, it was about ⁓ seven A officers.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, absolutely. They talk wherever they can.
Taisyn: code 3 response, you know, the whole world's gonna come. ⁓ So when I get out the car and that this point while I'm moving vehicles ⁓ body-worn camera doesn't have to be activated. You activate it when you're gonna have contact with the general public. So get out the cars, ⁓ I move cars, I get out of the car and I'm walking up to the scene and I hear the mother of the two black sons, her black sons
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right, of course.
Taisyn: I hear her say, you know, this officer shouldn't be on the streets. He's too aggressive. Now at this point, her sons are already detained, separated in two patrol cars. So they're detained. I see my coworkers her, trying to do a pat down on her. And then I hear her saying that to Officer P. And so I'm kind of listening and I'm like, something must have happened. She's not happy. She's, you know, going at him, targeting him. Well, then he rebuttals he goes, you know, well, you shouldn't have been aggressive with my officers. And so I'm like, all right, let me try. Yeah. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: unnecessary that's very unnecessary he's escalating the situation yeah yeah
Taisyn: Thank you. So I'm like, okay, let me this, gonna, they're gonna be in an arguing match. You know, we're trying to figure out what we have. Let me walk him away from the scene. Cause obviously something transpired just ⁓ off your trading experience and listening to conversations. Something happened. And so I said, hey, come on, like trying to push him away to walk him away. I'm like, hey, come on, walk away, walk away. I'm like, why are arguing back and forth with her? She's handcuffed. Like, come on, walk away. And he literally pushes me, puts his hand on my breast area and goes, stop it, don't do that. And I'm like, just walk away, you know, trying to deescalate, just trying to deescalate. My biggest thing is, you know, liability. So based off the conversations, something transpired and now I'm like, let me look out for my partner. I don't want this to be some sort of use of force, lawsuit, know, escalation is at an all time high right now. ⁓ If you don't, this is 2023. So this is after George Floyd. So if you don't deescalate, you know, you get put in prison these days if you don't intervene. So I'm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right, right, right. you know. Yeah. What year is this? Okay, right. Yeah, yeah, I saw it.
Taisyn: I'm like, let me get him away from the scene, just try to calm him down, but instead he pops off at me. And next to you know, the supervisor, happens to the IA Sergeant, he was working patrol that night. He tells us, Crutchfield, you go over there, and then Officer P, you go over there to try to like split us. And so I'm like, you know, I walk away. And he goes, matter of fact, Crutchfield, go to the station or go back to station. And then he tells Officer P, go to the station. Well, remember, I was at the main station. I came from the substation. So when you tell me to go back,
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm. Mm hmm. Right.
Taisyn: I go back to the station I was working at. He never said, you know, meet me in the sergeant's office, I want to talk to you or hang out, you know, at the sergeant's office. None of that. So I took it as like, okay, cool. Clear, clear from the scene. Yeah, clear from the scene, go back to, you know, doing our work. So I'm going to pause on that. What I later found out, and this is why the mother was upset. What I later found out is that
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. I'm gonna go back to the substation. Yeah.
Taisyn: Two officers prior to Officer P arriving to the scene were already on the scene. They were letting the boys argue. They were arguing with each other the body worn camera that got released of the OIS that their dad was involved in. So they're emotional. They literally just watched the DA drop the body worn camera of the OIS. So now they're arguing with each other. They're emotional. It's 3 a.m. Now they're outside, but they're arguing with each other. There's no PR. There's no person reporting, you know, hey, noise complaint or a 4-15. Yes.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I just wrote a little argument on the street. Yeah, which is normal.
Taisyn: Yes, so what I later found out is that two officers were already there, just letting them argue. They didn't intervene, go hands on or anything. But when Officer P ran from the station to the scene, he just walks hot, doesn't ask questions. Hey, what do we have? Not observing, just walks up, grabs the boy, pushes to like this. It's like a planner full of like plants and cactuses, pushes him
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: to the planners like their attorney because they ended up suing said he was actually face planting him in the cactus then he turns him around and he has his hand over his neck like this yeah and so now
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm-hmm. That's a choke hold, That's a felony.
Taisyn: After learning about what happened, I'm like, ⁓ well, that's why the mom was pissed off. She literally saw her son get manhandled by Officer P, who literally, like, went hands-on for what? Two officers were there.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. Especially, know, her husband was killed by the same department, right? And they just got the video for it and they just reviewed it. So they're all, you know, ⁓ yeah, the emotions are high. And on top of that, they weren't doing anything wrong. You could have a verbal argument in the street. There's no complaining. There's no, there's no victim. There's no injuries. There's no fight. There's no physical altercation. That's a wrongful rush straight off the bat. You have, you know what saying? That was one of problems with
Taisyn: Emotions are high. No. No.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: When I was a rookie in NYPD where other people come to my job, other units come to my job, right? My job meaning my radio call, right? And then just taking over. When that happens, like what I learned when that happens, I just go, oh, you got this? Okay. And I walk away. And then after that, they will never come to your job and try to take over your job ever again. Right. And then they leave you with the, they leave you with the bag. You know what saying? They like, okay, it's yours.
Taisyn: and create. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah, they want to jump on your calls. Well.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: No, it's not. It's you. You put your hands on the guy. Like that's crazy. That's crazy. Go ahead.
Taisyn: Yeah, exactly. And that's the thing. when he came on the scene, he in fact just escalated because the two other officers didn't go hands on. So now you're going hands on, detaining them. So now I figure out, okay, this is why the mother was so upset. And this is why she said you're too aggressive. So go back to the substation.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Uh-huh. Right.
Taisyn: with my partner. was passenger, he was driver. And walk in and there's a supervisor at the substation. This supervisor, he was a corporal at the time. He was at the substation the whole night. So he saw us leave and go to the call and then come back.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: huh. Mm-hmm.
Taisyn: And so I'm telling him what happened. like, you know, hey, corporal, we'll say corporal L. you know, I just want to run this by you, you know, Sergeant it's the IA Sergeant, you know, he kind of came at me a little hard, kind of disrespectful. I don't know if he thought, you know, I was trying to like be a certain way with Officer P, but I was just trying to deescalate. You know, these days you go to prison if you don't. ⁓ So like giving him the rundown of what happened. I'm telling him what happened sergeant B goes over the radio and he goes Crutchfield 1019 sergeant's office ⁓ means return back to station ⁓ mind we have call signs, right? You didn't call me by my call sign. You called me by my last name So at this point everyone knows you're singling me out. I'm telling him what happened sergeant B goes over the radio and he goes Crutchfield 1019 sergeant's office 1019 return back to station and Yeah, mind we have call signs, right? You didn't call me by my call sign. You called me by my last name So at this point everyone knows you're singling me out. Everyone now knows like ⁓ Yes ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. They should have called your sector unit or whatever, know, unit so and so or sector so and so come back to turn to, to, you know, the station house or something like that. Yeah. All right.
Taisyn: Yes, exactly. So when Corporal L hears Sergeant B call me over the radio, he's like, hey, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what transpired out there, but make sure you ask him if you're going to need a rep for this because you have rights, know, have co-bots rights. And I'm like, okay, we back to the main station now, because that's where the sergeant's office is. And as walking up to the sergeant's office, I see that it's him in there. And when I up, he's literally twirling his pin and just had this ⁓ look. And so I walk in and I'm like, hi sir. And he's like, close the door. And I'm like, there's no witnesses here. I don't know what's about to happen behind. Yeah, closed door conversations. I'm not with that, especially if no one else is in there to witness it. So I the advice from Corporal L and I go, is this something I'm gonna need a rep for?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, already feeling uncomfortable. Yeah. Right.
Taisyn: Now as the IA Sergeant, you know, you if anyone knows that I have the right to ask that question. And so he just looks at me in this disgusted look and he's like, why would you need a rep? And I was like, well, you kind of, you know, called me out in the field, kind of disrespected me. I don't know what's about to happen and I know I have rights. his next thing out of his mouth was, get out.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Absolutely. Yeah
Taisyn: And I said, me? And like, get out. And I'm okay.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: He's gonna take it to next level now.
Taisyn: And so this pretty tall. Maybe like two of me. And so I'm walking out, I can feel him behind me. And he goes, of fact, where are you coming from? And I'm like, where am I coming from? And he's like, yeah. And like, the substation. And he goes, perfect. Now, I'm not stupid, right?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah.
Taisyn: was born a day, but I wasn't born yesterday. When he said that, I'm like, he's gonna try to get me for like, not to directions, insubordination, disobeying a direct order. And I'm like, but on top of that, like you just violated my rights because I literally asked you ⁓ if needed a rep.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right, you asked a simple question. His feelings got hurt though, and he's like, oh, you want to play that game? So I'm going take it to the next level. Now we'll play that game. That's, that's a stupid, typical male chauvinist trick power tripping, IA Sergeant like mentality. Like it's dumb. It happens with the NYPD all the time. Oh, you want to play that game? It's like, I'm not playing the game. You're the one playing games. You know what saying? Like I'm just asking if I need a rep or not. Yeah.
Taisyn: Yes. Yes. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yes. And like that's okay for me to ask especially like you're not just an ordinary sergeant You're the IA sergeant that happens to be working patrol So why like of course anyone's gonna be a little bit more on thin ice when it comes to you know, the IA sergeant calling you exactly Yeah
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right, right. You want to the book, right? Yeah, you want to follow the rules. Yeah. Do I need a rep? All you to do is like, no, we're having a conversation. Okay, cool. You know, but if we'll have an on the record conversation, I'm gonna need a rep. I don't care. I don't care what kind of conversation this is, but if this is going to be like something where you're going to be instructing me how to perform next time or whatever, I'm going to need a rep because you know what I'm Yeah, you're 1000 % correct. And everything that you're saying so far,
Taisyn: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah!
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: 1000 % correct. I would have done the same thing. I would have, you know, when I've done the plane times as a sergeant where I see cops escalating, I'm like, you take a walk. Yeah, like back off. And if they're gonna do it, back the fuck off. I'm giving you a command discipline. You what saying? Like back off. Cool down. Yeah.
Taisyn: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I would hope that if the roles were reversed and I was over here getting hot-headed, I would hope that a partner comes up to me and be like, crutch, like, walk away. Because you don't want to take the bait. You don't want to take the bait. You know? Yes.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Absolutely, Right, right. You got to have tough skin. You got to have tough skin. You got to be the bigger person and just like, you know, the first officers that arrived at the scene, they did the right thing by letting the kids argue, whatever, nothing's going on. Situation is safe. We're going to be here and things escalate. Then we'll take action. But they're not doing anything wrong. But for him to just to walk onto the scene and take, especially somebody else's job.
Taisyn: Yeah. Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: while even asking the cops, hey, what's going on? And then just put hands on people. Nah, bro, get out of here. know what Like this, this cop needs retraining or he needs to get off the job,
Taisyn: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I think in the drop ball links I sent you, actually think I posted his body worn camera on there so you can see it. Yeah, let's play it.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, I saw you. want to share that? Okay, let me let me get that. Hold on a second. ⁓ you gave to me in the messenger, right? So, let me...
Taisyn: Nope, you're good. Yeah, it should be like a drop box folder. But while you're looking for that, so I'm like at the station the whole night now because now I'm ordered. can't go out to the field. And so that was February. The next evening, I because it was graveyard. So I went home. I went to sleep, woke up. and around this incident happened Monday morning, like 3am, so evening, around 5pm, I sent an email to my rep and I'm like, hey, ⁓ I to file a complaint on Sergeant B, this is why, he disrespected me. So now have paper trail that I'm going to be filing a complaint. Now, I did that. Like I said, the day of, pretty much the day of. And then I did my final complaint, like Thursday when I returned back to my regular shift, I told my assigned supervisor of my shift what happened and that I wanted to go through with my complaint. And at the time, there was black IA lieutenant. ⁓ she was one charge of IA. She oversees the IA sergeants.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm-hmm.
Taisyn: So this supervisor... went ahead and the IA process ⁓ ⁓ submitted a complaint on me but the thing is the IA lieutenant, the black IA lieutenant never received the complaint. What he did was he waited for her to get rotated out of IA because he knew that she would probably just say hey this is something we're going to handle on the patrol level it doesn't really need to be internal affairs it could be a training issue ⁓ instead he waited for her to get rotated out, waited for
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: for the next IA lieutenant who's a white lieutenant and then submitted the complaint to him. So pretty much what he was trying to make sure is that it generated an IA. So this is the body worn camera.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: crazy Yeah, this could have just been like a verbal instruction like, know, just stay away from this guy. This guy's got issues, whatever, you know what saying? Like, but I'm playing this video. is that officer that you're talking about, Officer P. This is his body camera.
Taisyn: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so this is... Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep, so this is them leaving. Remember I told you some of them ran from the main station to the scene. So...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And you can see the lights already is right down the block. Yeah.
Taisyn: Yep, exactly. So literally runs to the scene. And then you'll see that other officers are already there. mean, as you see, like you said, the lights are already there.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. And this is like what the midnight shift is two to three o'clock in the morning.
Taisyn: 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. So you see that's the mom and then
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ yeah, I see him grabbing him all of a and just like, it's not your job bro. I mean, like there's other cops there. You mean?
Taisyn: Yep. And then that's the face. Yep. That's the planner. So he's literally putting the boy's face in that planner while he's trying to put him in handcuffs. And I don't know if you saw, but the mom even had her son. The mom was holding her son.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right.
Taisyn: So where was the thread?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And what is the charge? What are you charging them with? What are you arresting them for? Having a verbal argument in the street? Come on.
Taisyn: So you see that's where he puts it. Yeah. Yeah. So that's that view. ⁓ You can pause that. And I think I put another body-worn camera. I think it might be ⁓ a patrol unit.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I think it's yours, alright?
Taisyn: There's mine, but then there's a patrol unit and that one captures everything. I think it's like unit, it's like unit 27 or something's MAV, M-A-V. And then that one, yeah. So if you want to play that.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ I see it, okay.
Taisyn: But going back, yeah, so the black lieutenant didn't get my IA. If you were submitting an IA complaint, it would have went to her and she never got it. But what he did was he predated the date that he said he submitted.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Because they wanted somebody that they knew to handle it. Yeah, it's crazy.
Taisyn: can handle it exactly. So this is the unit MAV. If you want to go ahead and fast forward it to when they're okay here you go. Yeah, so this is when their this unit is gonna capture pretty much everything so they're that's the mom and those are the boys And Mm-hmm and so like the boys don't like the police. I mean being that they're yeah
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: This is the first unit that showed up. Looks like there's a pro printer to show up. Yeah, of course. Of course, it's just- he just saw the video of cops killing his dad, of course.
Taisyn: Yeah, and so.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And this one is not even being aggressive. He's just standing there like, the hell?
Taisyn: The mom is... Exactly. But they're arguing with each other. Like, family dispute. Family dispute, right? Hands in his pockets, not making any sort of aggressive threat.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, like cut it out Yeah. Well, he's probably scared that his brother is gonna get shot too. That's why you know I mean like after seeing your dad getting shot by the cops He's probably like yo knock it off. You know, I don't want you to get shot by the cops. You know saying Yeah
Taisyn: Exactly. chill out. And so that's their mom. You see she's trying to control him. This is the first officer. This is the one that put out, hey, can you show me out on the 415th right? And then you can hear us units responding. But again, he didn't go hand. He's just standing there, right? No active threat. Even if you want to wait for your partner before you go hands on. Well, here's your partner. He didn't go hands on. But then here's officer P just walks up and grabs the stuff. So now at this point, well yeah, they're all gonna go hands on now, right? But two officers, two officers arrived at the scene and didn't go hands on. Now when you turn, when Officer P turns them around is when you're gonna see his hand on his neck. So you see him putting his face in there?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. I see it, I see it, yeah? Yeah? What the crazy part is, what are you gonna charge them with? There's no complainant. There's no... Right.
Taisyn: ⁓ There was no charge. At the end, this case was, this scene, see, there's the hand part.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: It has to be dropped because there's no complaint and there's no probable cause to approach.
Taisyn: Yeah, no, they never got, there was no, there was no citation given, no one was arrested. That was it.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: It's crazy.
Taisyn: So that's it for that one. You can go ahead and pause it. ⁓ And then if you want to show my body-worn camera, because then you'll get my point of view of what I observed. And while you pull that up, I'll finish with this Sergeant, how he falsified the date of his complaint. He put that he submitted it February But ⁓ on, me and my attorney, we went through it and we found some discrepancies because he ended up saying he interviewed the corporal that was at the substation with me. He didn't say when he interviewed him, I the, ⁓ they it, but I got the ⁓ real that's not redacted and ⁓ Corporal ⁓ IA interview, he said he didn't get a phone call from Sergeant B to almost three days later to get his statement. So how did you put on the paperwork February 21st, but you didn't get a statement from Corporal L for another three days? ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: the You're doing the right thing. You're actually looking out for him.
Taisyn: You see how it was just like, crutch fail, crutch for crutch fail, not that. This other...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah You're you're actually looking out for him. I would have been like thanks, you know like this this
Taisyn: I'm like walk away. Am I is my voice elevated? Is it raised?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: No, nothing. would have I would have came to the side with you and blame. Hey, what's up? And then you're like, ⁓ calm down. You know, you're getting a little child like, thanks. You know, like, I appreciate it. You know what saying? Like, but this guy, what an asshole. up. I'm sorry to say he's a he's a fucking asshole. He's one of the guys that we call what call two boxes. He's a cool, you know, like.
Taisyn: So. ⁓ wait! So you want to know something? This incident happened in 2023. February of 2025, this same officer gets arrested for DUI.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Of can see it. I can see it.
Taisyn: rest for DUI.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And I can see him going home beating his wife. Like, he seems like that type of guy. You know what saying?
Taisyn: for DUI. Steven, he did not get placed on anyone's admin leave. He was at work the next day after being arrested with DUI. This is how this department operates. You can get arrested, you can take shots on duty, because I'm gonna get into that too, and nothing happens. But I get suspended for seven months, and here are my charges. You ready?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Well you get you wait wait wait wait wait wait they suspend you for seven months for that?
Taisyn: So this incident happens February. I work all February. I work all March and I work until mid April. I'm at home. I live 45 minutes east from Pasadena Police Department. I'm at home and I get a knock on my door and I'm like, who's at my door? It's my off day. Like who's I'm not expecting any guests. The IA Lieutenant, the white one, and then the other sergeant, the other IA sergeant is at my door.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Uh-huh.
Taisyn: They come to my house, confiscate my gun, they confiscate my badge, and they serve me with my IA paperwork. My charges, insubordination, disrespected officer, I pushed an like an assault charge, and my body-worn camera activated upon arrival of the scene.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: You never pushed them though. You never pushed them though. Like I don't see where the push is. I don't see where the insubordination is because you told me to go back to the station. All right. I'm assigned to the substation. going back to the substation. You know what I'm Disrespecting the officer. Hey, come over here. Calm down. That's not disrespect. It's not like you're cursing at him or something like that. Like is crazy. Look, don't really, I don't like pulling the race card, right? I don't like pulling it at all, but this ⁓
Taisyn: seven months. Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: It's because you're black female. You know what saying? Like, they're saying, here comes the rookie black female who thinks she could get away with things because she's black. And then they want to fucking retaliate against you and stuff like that. And that's crazy because we need more good cops like you to keep people in line. if don't want to, know, if the cop that was involved with the George Floyd incident went up to that white cop and said, yo, chill.
Taisyn: ⁓ 100%. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: You're on his fucking neck, he's his neck. You know what saying? The death could have been prevented. And all these riots and stuff like that could have been prevented. know, all this hate towards, you know, cops and stuff like that could have been prevented. Cops like this is what make policing bad. You know what I'm saying? And we need people more like you to hold accountability to these people. Like that's just crazy that you got seven months suspension for this? That's crazy.
Taisyn: and get off his back. ⁓ Hmm. So my IA paperwork says, you know, my probation is extended. I can't go to the department. I must call from 8 to 10, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? So I'm at home now. I'm at home now. And I want to say June. Month of June comes. And I remember waking up, and my Instagram notifications are just being blown up. And I'm like, what is happening?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, you gotta check in. Yeah
Taisyn: Article on top of article on top of article Pasadena PD is trying to fire black rookie officer for trying to de-escalate blah blah blah blah and ⁓ one these articles said black officer facing being fired for trying to de-escalate but cops drank on duty and Didn't get placed on admin leave and I'm like cops drank on duty. I'm like I didn't about this like this. This is fake news
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: A video gets leaked the media and it's five or so Pasadena police officers outside our jurisdiction who attended party of an off-duty police officer who was a probation officer like myself. And in this you see her pour tequila shots and walk them to the officers. They have police on their back and they start taking shots. So I think I put this one in the drop box too, if you want to show that video. And so I'm looking at this video and I'm like, hold on. Cops were drinking on the job. This incident happened in January. IA knew about it in March they refused to put any of these cops.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Is this video March 27th?
Taisyn: No, not that one. It say cops drinking on duty. Let me see. I can verify it
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I see a DUI arrest
Taisyn: Yeah, that's a sergeant. got alcohol issues.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I don't see any other videos, but I do see in the news when I Google you though
Taisyn: Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: the news put one of the party thing i think
Taisyn: So if you go through that drop box and hit cops drinking on duty, I think that's an article. Because Pasadena PD, they actually confirmed, in fact, cops were drinking on the job. And so I'm at home, like, why am I on admin leave for trying to do the right thing, and you got cops drinking on the job, and you left them working? You left them working.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. That's crazy.
Taisyn: And so I'm like, you know what? Forget this. I'm getting a civil rights attorney because I'm being treated poor and unfair and more like retaliatory toward because of trying to de-escalate.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: How long has this guy been on the job?
Taisyn: Officer P probably was on there a year. He probably has one year on me at Pasadena PD. I think he lateraled from the Sheriff's Department. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so, yeah, at this point, I'm like, I'm gonna retain an attorney because you can't tell me that, you know, I'm at home.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: So he's a rookie too. ⁓ that's why. His time transferred over, right?
Taisyn: for quote unquote being insubordinate, but you got cops drinking on the job.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: So I, yeah, I saw this one, right? And in this one, I'm gonna play this one.
Taisyn: Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I just want to say this incident right here, like when I heard this, I was like, wait a second, is this NYPD she's talking about? Cause the same thing is going on here, right? With the last administration, with Adams administration, there was a chief, chief Madri and like the other chiefs and stuff like that. And they're known notorious for known for like, you know, sleeping with female cops or pressuring them to sleep. with them and if they don't, if they don't, get punished. If they do, they get rewared like unlimited overtime, whatever they want to do and stuff like that. So this is very common. This whole sexual harassment thing is sexual assault. Shit is very, very common.
Taisyn: Well, the thing is, is that...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's your incident.
Taisyn: Yeah, that's my incident.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: After this I think they show the party. Right here at the party. Right? This is the party you talking about?
Taisyn: Are you? Mm-hmm. So you can see the officers there. That's when she hands it and then you'll see him take the screen.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: This is very common in NYPD also where they go to ⁓ police function and like parties and stuff like that in uniform because they're working and they couldn't make it and everybody else gets the day off and well we couldn't get the day off they would go and and go to the party and stuff like that but that that's very common too and it's just crazy so much nepotism and favoritism and stuff like that it's just crazy like this guy you know like
Taisyn: Yep. is. It is.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I can't believe they suspended you for seven months just for that. Like I saw the video just like you saw the video. Everybody here is going to see the video. Get suspended for seven months just for telling, hey, know, step to the side, bro. You you, you, you little up here. You know what mean? Like step to the side.
Taisyn: Thank you much. Well, for the...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Wow. So what happened? Did politicians help you? Did anybody come out to help you and stuff like that? What happened?
Taisyn: So listen to this. So the probation officer who gave the cops the alcohol, like myself, was on probation. admin leave, no probation extension or anything, but what we later found out is that her and the chief were like going out to dinners and meeting up. So this is why she didn't get punished for furnishing alcohol.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Uh-huh.
Taisyn: And she was IA'd for that. She was IA'd for conduct unbecoming. But if we're both getting IA'd, how do you put one probationer on admin leave and not the other one, and both were egregious acts? Drinking on duty is an egregious act. fast forward.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right. Right.
Taisyn: October I get a call from IA and they say, you're going to come back to work. We don't know, you know, going to happen with your IA. We don't have the disposition. Just come back to work. And I get back to work and immediately I'm served with another document that says my probation was extended for like another three weeks. So those three weeks by now puts us in November. Well, In November, I get off probation. They have me sign my probation eval. was great, right? You know, she got 13 arrests, was rewarded the mothers of drunk driving, which I didn't even get to go to my ceremony because no one told me that I was a candidate for it. You know, she got the Award. She doing this, this great probation eval. And they're like, if you like it, love it, sign it, date it, boom, you're off probation. Sign, sealed, and delivered. 30 seconds, Stephen, 30 seconds went by. The lieutenant, my lieutenant, and the commander came in and served me with a performance improvement plan. My performance improvement plan. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ huh. Mm-hmm. You just you just you just awarded me with cop of the year like basically like I'm saying like what are you talking about? Oh my god
Taisyn: My performance improvement plan contradicted everything the probation evaluation said.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right.
Taisyn: It said I made bad decisions. put stuff in there from what I did in college. So in college, you know, my background check, in college I had falsified my ⁓ placard and I'm, I'll tell everybody what I did. I don't care. I falsified it. I had a current one ready to go picked up. I had a knee surgery. I didn't feel like going into DMV. So I punched a hole in my one that expired. And so UC Irvine, come, they give me a citation. Case was dismissed because I did have a legit and a legit handicapped placard case dismissed this happened in college Stephen happened in college they put that on my performance improvement plan and they I don't make good decisions look what she did in college so you're putting something on my performance improvement plan before I was hired
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right. This is the thing, right? With bad evaluation thing, they're trying to dirty you up to make you seem like you're a bad cop. And then when you decide to sue or expose them, they're going to say, this person disgruntled, whatever, and stuff like that. And look at it, look at them. They were back performing cop and stuff like that. They did that to me. So it is a common tactic. They do that to everybody. We even with Javier. You know that was whistle-blowing in Illinois and stuff like that. Every cop spoke to every law enforcement even in FBI Every ⁓ enforcement I spoke to there's whistle-blow they do that right now I'm just I'm just so disgusted like like ⁓
Taisyn: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm But how do you put something in my pip that was in my background that you hired me on?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Because they couldn't find anything, because they couldn't find anything. Right. And that's the thing. But, you know, if you dig deep enough on somebody, you're going to find something. Right. Everybody has some kind of, some kind of thing. This guy Jaywalk three times in the street, the street. So they'll find something to pin on you. Right. And only because they couldn't find anything wrong with you doing anything wrong.
Taisyn: exactly. Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: and so they have to go into your past where it's like ⁓ when she was like three years old she didn't change her diaper like come on like they're saying it's just stupid stuff it just disgusts me they're just dumb they're just go ahead i'm sorry i'm sorry go ahead
Taisyn: It's crazy. So, so they use, so in this PIP they used stuff I did in college, stuff I did in the academy. They said, you know, you talked back to the DI staff and in the academy I did talk back to one of the DI staff because he didn't let me take my inhaler and I had told him I need to take my inhaler and he told me no. What I later found out is that Pasadena police officer was friends with this DI staff. We went to the, I went to the LA County Sheriff's Academy. He was friends with this drill instructor. he told the drill instructor to make sure I don't pass the Academy to wash me out. So this drill instructor goal was to have me fail the Academy. ⁓ yeah, I had a hit on me in the Academy. My stuff with Pasadena PD started back in the Academy. This guy who was my pre Academy instructor did not like me, caught up his friend and said make sure you wash her out. So during the Academy I was targeted so much bad peer evaluation. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Why do they target you and the academy?
Taisyn: He didn't like me. This guy did not like me.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, you had had a target on your back from the very beginning Yeah
Taisyn: from the beginning, from the moment I stepped in Pasadena PD. the reason why I think I had a target on my back was because my name in the city of Pasadena is so big. My last name, my dad is like a high school legend out there. My mom is, the community knows us. City council, you know, went to school with my parents. So when first got sworn in, ⁓ like mayor gave me huge accolades. Like, you know, I know her dad and I'm so glad to have her on the police.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's great.
Taisyn: department, you know, she's this, she comes from a very good community, a very good family. So he gave me all these flowers and here you are, you have all these racist cops sitting here during the city council not liking that I have ties the mayor and people from the community. So their goal from the jump was to get me out. They wanted me out. And so... Pretty much, yeah, had hit on me in the academy. This guy was trying to get me washed out. same guy at Pasadena that knew the guy at the academy, he referenced me as a black female dog. The instructor told me that I was gonna end up on the memorial wall. I'm gonna get people killed and injured, and I'm a piece of shit. He said all this. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Those are death threats. I would have took it as death threats. That's just crazy.
Taisyn: So all this stuff was on my performance improvement plan. Stuff that happened in the academy. They put the IA in there. Now mind you, I didn't get my disposition back from the IA. So you're putting my IA in my pit. And we don't even know if I'm guilty or not. So all these stuff dated the same day as my probation eval that was positive. So a few months later, I get my IA disposition back.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: none of my allegations are sustained. And I forgot to tell you, they had hit me with a lying charge. They tried to say I lied about something. which wasn't true. Pretty much they tried to say I lied and they interviewed me a second time with the lying charge and said, we think you knew the family from your incident. And I'm like, why would you think I know the family? Well, you know, in your first IA interview, you said you had previous encounters with them. And so we went and we dug up some of your body-worn camera and you responded to another call with these two sons in a large group and you were talking to the sons, you know, very respectful and very calm. so we just think you know them. And I said, I know of them because I patrol the area they live in. I'm assigned to their beat. you're assigned to a specific beat, you're going to start knowing people. You're going to start seeing people. You're going to get familiar with people. ⁓ like, just because I say hi, and I'm nice, and I'm respectful, and I don't come in hot and grab people. And I said this in my IA interview. said, just because I don't come in hot and just grab people and escalate things, that doesn't mean that I know these people. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right. Yeah Yeah. Right, doesn't mean that we're friends, like I'm respectful to everybody. You know, so, know, I talk nice to everybody because I'm a good person. You know what saying? Like.
Taisyn: Yeah. Yeah. So they tried to say, yeah. They tried to hit me with the lying charge. So anyways, all these charges not sustained. But I'm still put on this pit that has the whole IA.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I'm they didn't put criminal association on that. you know these people, so there's criminal associating. Like, ⁓
Taisyn: At this point, so I didn't get backed up on a guy with a gun call. My parents had did the first press conference December 4th of 2023. That's when we just started exposing them. I later go into work that evening. I respond to a guy with a gun call. A lieutenant had to go over the radio and ask for somebody to back me up because no one backed me up. And so just because of all these different situations, I ended up
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: They want you to get killed that's why that's what happened to Sorkico like he never got any backup because they wanted to you know and get killed they they want you to they want you to get hurt while you're out there, which is crazy. how is this department?
Taisyn: Yes! Yeah. About 230 sworn.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: okay. It's a small department. So they're very tight. So it's like if you don't, if you're not probably quick, you're fucked. ⁓ ⁓
Taisyn: Yeah, yeah. Yes, everybody knows everybody. Yeah, and so the other thing is is that June June 2024 I go ahead and I you know do my resignation constructively discharge. I can't stay here. You guys are putting my safety at risk. You know the retaliation is crazy. So I leave Pasadena PD and then I get employed with another department, but this department is smaller. It's a university sort of PD, you know, not a lot of opportunities, special assignments aren't really there, and I took a massive pay cut. long short, I filed my lawsuit, you know, my attorneys, we've been in this for three years now. We were supposed to have trial mid-March, a week before trial, or not a week, a month before trial, my judge, who is a white judge, prior military, so to our military people, but you know how it is when you have... Yeah. So, my judge dismisses my and literally sides the city on everything.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: They look out for each other.
Taisyn: It was about seven of us suing. Two other guys hopped on my case with me. They got to settle. But the judge dismissed mine. he dismissed it based on not enough trialable facts that a jury will reasonably believe that you were a victim of discrimination, harassment, retaliation. Stuff where he was like, you know, you got caught a black dog, but it wasn't by a supervisor and you never reported it until now when you filed a lawsuit. You didn't get backed up on the guy with a gun call, but based off what they submitted, the city submitted and their CAD entry, it was only 10 seconds. It 10 seconds. It was two minutes from the the call got dispatched out to the moment the lieutenant asked for me to get backed up. Two minutes went by.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And I want to point that right so I worked in East Flatbush in Brownsville in in New York City in NYPD When you're at a gunfight or when when you go to a gun call two minutes is a very long time Two minutes is very very long. So I know like, you know the public's in there's only two minutes when you're in a gunfight two minutes is very very long Your adrenaline is pumping. Everything's in slow motion. It feels like it's forever. it's two minutes is a very long time for you not to get any kind of response or call for backup or whatever. Cause in NYPD, once there's like a gun run, everybody's going right away. The radio call it's right away. You know what saying? Show me going, show me going, show me going. Right.
Taisyn: Yes. Yes. Exactly. A lieutenant shouldn't have to go over the air. Yeah, a lieutenant shouldn't have to go over the air and say, can someone back her up?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, it's automatic. It's automatic. Once you hear like, oh, officer needs assistance and 1310, 1085. That's those are our codes, right? Or a man with a gun or even like angry, like priority calls what we call 30s, right? So like a 30 would be a robbery. A 31 is like, you know, whatever 34 is an assault in progress, stuff like that. Right. Even with 30s, everybody's going. Show me going, show me going, show me on the backup, show me in the backup.
Taisyn: Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right and then the supervisor will actually have to say Stop, we have enough people stop coming Resume patrol, you know, but everybody's going so it's two minutes for everybody to like be crickets know, they're fucking with you That's that's crazy and for him for him to be a military to even know that like because i'm if he was a combat Veteran, will know two minutes is a very fucking long time and for his mobile to respond to when you have contact and for nobody to respond
Taisyn: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sufficient units. Yes! Yes!
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: They know shit off the back. Why isn't anybody responding? Like they're fucking with me. You what I'm Like it's just, that's just crazy. It's I'm sorry that you went through all this, man. It's just for that incident too. And it's just, but thing is, since you said that you will target since the academy, I could see that it's ongoing thing. It's not just because of this situation is because they never liked you. They wanted to get rid of you from the get go. And so they took this opportunity to like try to fuck with you. You know what saying? Which is
Taisyn: exactly. For sure.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Which is fucked up. You know, that's, that's the problem with small departments too. They're so, they're so clicky. So.
Taisyn: They are. Well, I remember department, was PD out here in California. They had like an all-woman combat shooting training. And so training coordinator had flew the email to the department and was like, hey, we recommend, you know, females to go to this. ⁓ so like eight us in it, eight females, seven Hispanic females got to go. denied.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm-hmm. 7 out of 8
Taisyn: I couldn't go.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. That's crazy. It's because they recognize your name. It's because they recognize your name. It's just...
Taisyn: I couldn't go. I was denied training. Yeah. But the department, no, it was Pasadena. Pasadena let them go. They didn't let me go.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, but I'm saying somebody who ever reviewed it was probably looking at the names like, this girl. No, you know what I'm It's just crazy. So where's your, where's your, you're at a university, you're a university cop now, campus police and stuff like that. First of all, I applaud you for even wanting to do the job still. You know what I'm
Taisyn: Yep. Yep. Yeah. ⁓ it's hard. It's hard. You know?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, because I have PTSD where it's like people are like, ⁓ do you actually come back when you go back? And I'll be like, no, you know, wouldn't go back unless you put me in a position where I'm changing stuff. Right. But if you're putting me back as a sergeant, whatever, where I can't change anything and I'm going to go do this all over again. No, I'm not. I'm not going back. Right. But for you to want to become police officer, even in a different county and stuff like that, or a different place is I applaud you for that. That takes strength. You know,
Taisyn: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I wish, know, I wish the mayor would have been like, Hey, you know, let's promote this girl and have her like change the department for the better and stuff like that. But I know that's not going to happen because nobody wants beef with the police department. You know, it's just. ⁓
Taisyn: They all stick together, even with my judge. mean, he literally, like I said, not one single allegation was in favor of me. Dismissed my case.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. So now you're fighting this appeal, correct?
Taisyn: So what I actually found out yesterday was that now city wants to come after me for fees because they're trying to say my case was frivolous.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: What? They want to cat? What do mean? They're suing you now? We're bringing a case against them?
Taisyn: They're trying to ⁓ hold me accountable for their attorney fees and costs by trying to get the judge to agree on. Now the only thing is, now I don't trust the judge, so they're trying to get the judge to agree on that my case shouldn't have been brought forward in the first place. They're trying to rule it as frivolous, so then I have to pay them their attorney fees. Yep.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That like never happens. That never happens. Cause they're on a poor world anyway. Right. That's crazy. Well, here's your GoFundMe. So if anybody who's listening to this and stuff and want to help out, you know, this would go to a legal fees and stuff like that and, you know, help her get by and everything while they're doing this, because I know how it is like being in the gutter and being down, you spend all your savings on legal fees on this battle and stuff, then harassing you and then doing more legal legal obstacles in front of you is where you have to hire a lawyer and stuff like that. So you're
Taisyn: Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm in the process of trying to appeal. My attorney is an appellate attorney. He is a civil rights attorney, so he doesn't practice appeal. So I have to now get referred out, try to get an appeal attorney, but they charge by hour and they require an upfront fee. And so I'm getting...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Bye. Yeah, I mean, we're going to try to get you in contact with the government accountability project and Tom Devine over at the government accountability project. They're aces with that. ⁓ I'll give you the info for that, but also just in case, you know, like because they're always taking cases that they're always, you know, maybe they didn't have too many cases and stuff like that, but they definitely did help. Right. ⁓ But I will post this and the government accountability project link on the bottom and your social media. So if anybody wants to reach out and further
Taisyn: Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: highlight your situation, they could do that right? ⁓ It's a shame man, it's just really f'ed up what's going on.
Taisyn: Yes. It's like the cops that do good and you know, try to do their best and try to, you know, withhold like from being, yeah, from being like part of the corruption and the good old boys club. Like we always get punished. We always get punished. Like there was a Sergeant in one of the Dropbox. He was being investigated for DUI. He takes off running from CHP and
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: We get fucked. We get fucked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we get fucked. We get fucked.
Taisyn: He's still a sergeant there.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, we get fucked, you know, and again, I don't want to the race card, but as minorities, as you being black and me being Asian and stuff like that, we get fucked extra hard. If you were you if you were a blonde white girl and you were touching him and say, hey, go over there. He'd be like, oh, OK, sweetie. You know, you know, say I'm telling you, it's I'm not I'm not racist. You know, I love white people. You don't say, right?
Taisyn: Yeah. No, for real. Yep. You're 100 % correct. It's the culture. It's the culture.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I love everybody, but I'm just letting you know there is racism for people that right Right. It's you know, it's the good old boys, know saying like it mentality is there for people to say all there's no such thing as racism in NYPD I'm like Man, you need to wake the fuck up bro. Like you need to wake the fuck up. Yeah, so is there anything else that you want to share like before we wrap this up like Damn, I'm so upset right now
Taisyn: Yes. Yeah, 100 % Yeah, I mean pretty much, you know, I fought for three years, the case. There's four pending lawsuits with minorities who are suing, passing a PD. Two of guys, they got settled. The judge let them settle, but came after hard. And now we're in this situation where I have like 26 left to try to appeal and fight back. And that's where we're at. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ man. I'm going to give you all the info for government accountability project with the context I have there. And I really hope that, know, Tom Devine will take your case and stuff like that. They're based out of Washington, D.C., but they do federal cases you know, they could help you with the appeal and stuff like that. You know, I'm ⁓
Taisyn: Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I'm just appalled by that.
Taisyn: Yeah. And this is the same cop that was drinking on the job. In that one video from March 27th, a citizen goes up to him and is like, how are you handing out tickets when you be drunk? You got arrested for, you know, DUI back in February. I think it was February 5th. He fact checks her and go, it was February 2nd and the case got dismissed. Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Of course. request. ⁓ my god, it's because he's in their crew. He's in their quick. ⁓ That's what I'm saying. It's like a gang. call it what it is. It's like a gang. They out for their own and it's just ⁓ crazy. thank you. Thank you all you've Thank you for being strong. Stay strong. We'll keep in contact and I'm going try to...
Taisyn: he can get away with it. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Thank you.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: get you some lawyers to help you out. Yeah. Thank you. But it's so sad to hear you go. Absolutely. Absolutely. And if anybody else out there who want to share their story, you know, and that's getting any play out there, because I know us whistleblowers, we get ignored all time. Feel free to reach out to me. System.unfiltered at know, Steve New York at gmail.com.
Taisyn: Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you for giving me the platform to tell my story.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Check my social medias everywhere. You contact me, you know, and I hope you win this man. I hope you win this because it would be a big victory for everybody. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully you'll win it where you hit them in their fucking pockets and it'll hurt them. And then they'll be like, we will never fuck with another black female ever again. Seriously. Like that's where you got to hit them. You got to them in their freaking pockets. That's the only way you hurt them. But thank you. Thank you so much for coming on.
Taisyn: Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yup. Thank you. ⁓ I appreciate it. Thank you so much. We'll talk soon.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: You know, God bless you. Yeah, God bless you. Yeah
Taisyn: Yes. Hi everyone, my name is Tyson Crutchfield. It's LA County, but I was with Pasadena PD. ⁓ So ⁓ little bit about myself. I was suing the city of Pasadena, the Pasadena Police Department for harassment, discrimination, whistleblower retaliation.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Okay.
Taisyn: What happened was back in February 2023, I responded to my partner who said he was out on a 415 fight. We didn't know if he was in. 415 is like a is a disturbance call. And so we didn't know if he was actually.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: What's a 415? Is it a salt?
Taisyn: in the disturbance, like if he was actually fighting if he just on viewed it. So supervisor authorizes the units to respond. Code three, which is lights and sirens ⁓ because the situation. You can kind of tell his stress inoculation was up. so this incident ⁓ took place.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: So that's like a police officer needs help like 1085 for us in NYPD or 1013. Okay.
Taisyn: Yeah, when the supervisor says like units respond code three, it's just because it could be an officer safety. We don't know if he's being ambushed. Like I said, we didn't really know what was happening. So when me and my partner responded, where this incident took place was distance from the main station. Pasadena has about three or four substations. ⁓ So and my partner, we were at a substation the whole night.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right.
Taisyn: We were working on a rape case, you know, that's a shift killer. ⁓ there the whole night and we to the scene from the which is about three minutes, code three, five minutes if you're not running Well, because of where the incident was taking place and where the main station was, some of the officers actually ran out on foot and responded to the scene. This family, I'll give you some background. The family that the officer was saying he was out on the 415 on, father, it's two boys, and their mom, their father got killed by the Altadena Sheriff's Department in an OIS. So that's officer involved shooting. It was about month prior to my incident.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mmm.
Taisyn: Pasadena is mutual aid to the sheriff's department, especially Alta Dena because we are almost borderline jurisdiction. when they had this officer involved shooting, some the Pasadena officers responded as mutual aid. So one the officers will reference him as Officer P. He responded to this incident back in January with the Alta Dena sheriff's OIS. He had a run in ⁓ with the that happened to be the same family in my incident. So I guess he was, yeah, he was mouthing all.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ wow. So this family already had like bad blood with the sheriff's department with good reason, right? And this time you're on a job for how long? You're a police officer for how long?
Taisyn: with. Mm-hmm. Yeah. at this time, it's been like two and a half years. I was still a probationer officer. So, ⁓ at will employee. I was about three or four months away from getting off probation. So the incident happened in February. I was going to be getting off probation in May. So,
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Okay. Okay. Uh-huh. Okay.
Taisyn: So this officer back in January, the Pasadena cop, he responds to this. gets told to leave the scene by the Altadena sheriff deputies because he's escalating that scene. So forward, February, which is my incident, me and partner, respond to the scene and we're there. ⁓ We get there little late because like I said, many people ran from actual station where we were in running distance.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: When I got to the scene, saw everybody was parked all crazy because you know how code 3 car calls be. You're just going in hot. You're parking crazy. I was like, So I was like, OK, it looks like from what I'm observing, it looks like the scene is somewhat code 4, good to go. Let me move the out of the way so we don't get a now traffic back up. And then I'll go see what's going on, they need help with. Because at this time, it was about ⁓ seven A officers.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, absolutely. They talk wherever they can.
Taisyn: code 3 response, you know, the whole world's gonna come. ⁓ So when I get out the car and that this point while I'm moving vehicles ⁓ body-worn camera doesn't have to be activated. You activate it when you're gonna have contact with the general public. So get out the cars, ⁓ I move cars, I get out of the car and I'm walking up to the scene and I hear the mother of the two black sons, her black sons
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right, of course.
Taisyn: I hear her say, you know, this officer shouldn't be on the streets. He's too aggressive. Now at this point, her sons are already detained, separated in two patrol cars. So they're detained. I see my coworkers her, trying to do a pat down on her. And then I hear her saying that to Officer P. And so I'm kind of listening and I'm like, something must have happened. She's not happy. She's, you know, going at him, targeting him. Well, then he rebuttals he goes, you know, well, you shouldn't have been aggressive with my officers. And so I'm like, all right, let me try. Yeah. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: unnecessary that's very unnecessary he's escalating the situation yeah yeah
Taisyn: Thank you. So I'm like, okay, let me this, gonna, they're gonna be in an arguing match. You know, we're trying to figure out what we have. Let me walk him away from the scene. Cause obviously something transpired just ⁓ off your trading experience and listening to conversations. Something happened. And so I said, hey, come on, like trying to push him away to walk him away. I'm like, hey, come on, walk away, walk away. I'm like, why are arguing back and forth with her? She's handcuffed. Like, come on, walk away. And he literally pushes me, puts his hand on my breast area and goes, stop it, don't do that. And I'm like, just walk away, you know, trying to deescalate, just trying to deescalate. My biggest thing is, you know, liability. So based off the conversations, something transpired and now I'm like, let me look out for my partner. I don't want this to be some sort of use of force, lawsuit, know, escalation is at an all time high right now. ⁓ If you don't, this is 2023. So this is after George Floyd. So if you don't deescalate, you know, you get put in prison these days if you don't intervene. So I'm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right, right, right. you know. Yeah. What year is this? Okay, right. Yeah, yeah, I saw it.
Taisyn: I'm like, let me get him away from the scene, just try to calm him down, but instead he pops off at me. And next to you know, the supervisor, happens to the IA Sergeant, he was working patrol that night. He tells us, Crutchfield, you go over there, and then Officer P, you go over there to try to like split us. And so I'm like, you know, I walk away. And he goes, matter of fact, Crutchfield, go to the station or go back to station. And then he tells Officer P, go to the station. Well, remember, I was at the main station. I came from the substation. So when you tell me to go back,
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm. Mm hmm. Right.
Taisyn: I go back to the station I was working at. He never said, you know, meet me in the sergeant's office, I want to talk to you or hang out, you know, at the sergeant's office. None of that. So I took it as like, okay, cool. Clear, clear from the scene. Yeah, clear from the scene, go back to, you know, doing our work. So I'm going to pause on that. What I later found out, and this is why the mother was upset. What I later found out is that
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. I'm gonna go back to the substation. Yeah.
Taisyn: Two officers prior to Officer P arriving to the scene were already on the scene. They were letting the boys argue. They were arguing with each other the body worn camera that got released of the OIS that their dad was involved in. So they're emotional. They literally just watched the DA drop the body worn camera of the OIS. So now they're arguing with each other. They're emotional. It's 3 a.m. Now they're outside, but they're arguing with each other. There's no PR. There's no person reporting, you know, hey, noise complaint or a 4-15. Yes.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I just wrote a little argument on the street. Yeah, which is normal.
Taisyn: Yes, so what I later found out is that two officers were already there, just letting them argue. They didn't intervene, go hands on or anything. But when Officer P ran from the station to the scene, he just walks hot, doesn't ask questions. Hey, what do we have? Not observing, just walks up, grabs the boy, pushes to like this. It's like a planner full of like plants and cactuses, pushes him
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: to the planners like their attorney because they ended up suing said he was actually face planting him in the cactus then he turns him around and he has his hand over his neck like this yeah and so now
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm-hmm. That's a choke hold, That's a felony.
Taisyn: After learning about what happened, I'm like, ⁓ well, that's why the mom was pissed off. She literally saw her son get manhandled by Officer P, who literally, like, went hands-on for what? Two officers were there.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. Especially, know, her husband was killed by the same department, right? And they just got the video for it and they just reviewed it. So they're all, you know, ⁓ yeah, the emotions are high. And on top of that, they weren't doing anything wrong. You could have a verbal argument in the street. There's no complaining. There's no, there's no victim. There's no injuries. There's no fight. There's no physical altercation. That's a wrongful rush straight off the bat. You have, you know what saying? That was one of problems with
Taisyn: Emotions are high. No. No.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: When I was a rookie in NYPD where other people come to my job, other units come to my job, right? My job meaning my radio call, right? And then just taking over. When that happens, like what I learned when that happens, I just go, oh, you got this? Okay. And I walk away. And then after that, they will never come to your job and try to take over your job ever again. Right. And then they leave you with the, they leave you with the bag. You know what saying? They like, okay, it's yours.
Taisyn: and create. Yeah. Yeah, right. Yeah, they want to jump on your calls. Well.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: No, it's not. It's you. You put your hands on the guy. Like that's crazy. That's crazy. Go ahead.
Taisyn: Yeah, exactly. And that's the thing. when he came on the scene, he in fact just escalated because the two other officers didn't go hands on. So now you're going hands on, detaining them. So now I figure out, okay, this is why the mother was so upset. And this is why she said you're too aggressive. So go back to the substation.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Uh-huh. Right.
Taisyn: with my partner. was passenger, he was driver. And walk in and there's a supervisor at the substation. This supervisor, he was a corporal at the time. He was at the substation the whole night. So he saw us leave and go to the call and then come back.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: huh. Mm-hmm.
Taisyn: And so I'm telling him what happened. like, you know, hey, corporal, we'll say corporal L. you know, I just want to run this by you, you know, Sergeant it's the IA Sergeant, you know, he kind of came at me a little hard, kind of disrespectful. I don't know if he thought, you know, I was trying to like be a certain way with Officer P, but I was just trying to deescalate. You know, these days you go to prison if you don't. ⁓ So like giving him the rundown of what happened. I'm telling him what happened sergeant B goes over the radio and he goes Crutchfield 1019 sergeant's office ⁓ means return back to station ⁓ mind we have call signs, right? You didn't call me by my call sign. You called me by my last name So at this point everyone knows you're singling me out. I'm telling him what happened sergeant B goes over the radio and he goes Crutchfield 1019 sergeant's office 1019 return back to station and Yeah, mind we have call signs, right? You didn't call me by my call sign. You called me by my last name So at this point everyone knows you're singling me out. Everyone now knows like ⁓ Yes ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. They should have called your sector unit or whatever, know, unit so and so or sector so and so come back to turn to, to, you know, the station house or something like that. Yeah. All right.
Taisyn: Yes, exactly. So when Corporal L hears Sergeant B call me over the radio, he's like, hey, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what transpired out there, but make sure you ask him if you're going to need a rep for this because you have rights, know, have co-bots rights. And I'm like, okay, we back to the main station now, because that's where the sergeant's office is. And as walking up to the sergeant's office, I see that it's him in there. And when I up, he's literally twirling his pin and just had this ⁓ look. And so I walk in and I'm like, hi sir. And he's like, close the door. And I'm like, there's no witnesses here. I don't know what's about to happen behind. Yeah, closed door conversations. I'm not with that, especially if no one else is in there to witness it. So I the advice from Corporal L and I go, is this something I'm gonna need a rep for?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, already feeling uncomfortable. Yeah. Right.
Taisyn: Now as the IA Sergeant, you know, you if anyone knows that I have the right to ask that question. And so he just looks at me in this disgusted look and he's like, why would you need a rep? And I was like, well, you kind of, you know, called me out in the field, kind of disrespected me. I don't know what's about to happen and I know I have rights. his next thing out of his mouth was, get out.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Absolutely. Yeah
Taisyn: And I said, me? And like, get out. And I'm okay.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: He's gonna take it to next level now.
Taisyn: And so this pretty tall. Maybe like two of me. And so I'm walking out, I can feel him behind me. And he goes, of fact, where are you coming from? And I'm like, where am I coming from? And he's like, yeah. And like, the substation. And he goes, perfect. Now, I'm not stupid, right?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah.
Taisyn: was born a day, but I wasn't born yesterday. When he said that, I'm like, he's gonna try to get me for like, not to directions, insubordination, disobeying a direct order. And I'm like, but on top of that, like you just violated my rights because I literally asked you ⁓ if needed a rep.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right, you asked a simple question. His feelings got hurt though, and he's like, oh, you want to play that game? So I'm going take it to the next level. Now we'll play that game. That's, that's a stupid, typical male chauvinist trick power tripping, IA Sergeant like mentality. Like it's dumb. It happens with the NYPD all the time. Oh, you want to play that game? It's like, I'm not playing the game. You're the one playing games. You know what saying? Like I'm just asking if I need a rep or not. Yeah.
Taisyn: Yes. Yes. Mm-hmm. Yep. Yes. And like that's okay for me to ask especially like you're not just an ordinary sergeant You're the IA sergeant that happens to be working patrol So why like of course anyone's gonna be a little bit more on thin ice when it comes to you know, the IA sergeant calling you exactly Yeah
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right, right. You want to the book, right? Yeah, you want to follow the rules. Yeah. Do I need a rep? All you to do is like, no, we're having a conversation. Okay, cool. You know, but if we'll have an on the record conversation, I'm gonna need a rep. I don't care. I don't care what kind of conversation this is, but if this is going to be like something where you're going to be instructing me how to perform next time or whatever, I'm going to need a rep because you know what I'm Yeah, you're 1000 % correct. And everything that you're saying so far,
Taisyn: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah!
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: 1000 % correct. I would have done the same thing. I would have, you know, when I've done the plane times as a sergeant where I see cops escalating, I'm like, you take a walk. Yeah, like back off. And if they're gonna do it, back the fuck off. I'm giving you a command discipline. You what saying? Like back off. Cool down. Yeah.
Taisyn: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. I would hope that if the roles were reversed and I was over here getting hot-headed, I would hope that a partner comes up to me and be like, crutch, like, walk away. Because you don't want to take the bait. You don't want to take the bait. You know? Yes.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Absolutely, Right, right. You got to have tough skin. You got to have tough skin. You got to be the bigger person and just like, you know, the first officers that arrived at the scene, they did the right thing by letting the kids argue, whatever, nothing's going on. Situation is safe. We're going to be here and things escalate. Then we'll take action. But they're not doing anything wrong. But for him to just to walk onto the scene and take, especially somebody else's job.
Taisyn: Yeah. Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: while even asking the cops, hey, what's going on? And then just put hands on people. Nah, bro, get out of here. know what Like this, this cop needs retraining or he needs to get off the job,
Taisyn: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And I think in the drop ball links I sent you, actually think I posted his body worn camera on there so you can see it. Yeah, let's play it.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, I saw you. want to share that? Okay, let me let me get that. Hold on a second. ⁓ you gave to me in the messenger, right? So, let me...
Taisyn: Nope, you're good. Yeah, it should be like a drop box folder. But while you're looking for that, so I'm like at the station the whole night now because now I'm ordered. can't go out to the field. And so that was February. The next evening, I because it was graveyard. So I went home. I went to sleep, woke up. and around this incident happened Monday morning, like 3am, so evening, around 5pm, I sent an email to my rep and I'm like, hey, ⁓ I to file a complaint on Sergeant B, this is why, he disrespected me. So now have paper trail that I'm going to be filing a complaint. Now, I did that. Like I said, the day of, pretty much the day of. And then I did my final complaint, like Thursday when I returned back to my regular shift, I told my assigned supervisor of my shift what happened and that I wanted to go through with my complaint. And at the time, there was black IA lieutenant. ⁓ she was one charge of IA. She oversees the IA sergeants.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm-hmm.
Taisyn: So this supervisor... went ahead and the IA process ⁓ ⁓ submitted a complaint on me but the thing is the IA lieutenant, the black IA lieutenant never received the complaint. What he did was he waited for her to get rotated out of IA because he knew that she would probably just say hey this is something we're going to handle on the patrol level it doesn't really need to be internal affairs it could be a training issue ⁓ instead he waited for her to get rotated out, waited for
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: for the next IA lieutenant who's a white lieutenant and then submitted the complaint to him. So pretty much what he was trying to make sure is that it generated an IA. So this is the body worn camera.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: crazy Yeah, this could have just been like a verbal instruction like, know, just stay away from this guy. This guy's got issues, whatever, you know what saying? Like, but I'm playing this video. is that officer that you're talking about, Officer P. This is his body camera.
Taisyn: Yeah, exactly. Yeah, so this is... Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yep, so this is them leaving. Remember I told you some of them ran from the main station to the scene. So...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And you can see the lights already is right down the block. Yeah.
Taisyn: Yep, exactly. So literally runs to the scene. And then you'll see that other officers are already there. mean, as you see, like you said, the lights are already there.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. And this is like what the midnight shift is two to three o'clock in the morning.
Taisyn: 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. So you see that's the mom and then
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ yeah, I see him grabbing him all of a and just like, it's not your job bro. I mean, like there's other cops there. You mean?
Taisyn: Yep. And then that's the face. Yep. That's the planner. So he's literally putting the boy's face in that planner while he's trying to put him in handcuffs. And I don't know if you saw, but the mom even had her son. The mom was holding her son.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, right.
Taisyn: So where was the thread?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And what is the charge? What are you charging them with? What are you arresting them for? Having a verbal argument in the street? Come on.
Taisyn: So you see that's where he puts it. Yeah. Yeah. So that's that view. ⁓ You can pause that. And I think I put another body-worn camera. I think it might be ⁓ a patrol unit.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I think it's yours, alright?
Taisyn: There's mine, but then there's a patrol unit and that one captures everything. I think it's like unit, it's like unit 27 or something's MAV, M-A-V. And then that one, yeah. So if you want to play that.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ I see it, okay.
Taisyn: But going back, yeah, so the black lieutenant didn't get my IA. If you were submitting an IA complaint, it would have went to her and she never got it. But what he did was he predated the date that he said he submitted.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Because they wanted somebody that they knew to handle it. Yeah, it's crazy.
Taisyn: can handle it exactly. So this is the unit MAV. If you want to go ahead and fast forward it to when they're okay here you go. Yeah, so this is when their this unit is gonna capture pretty much everything so they're that's the mom and those are the boys And Mm-hmm and so like the boys don't like the police. I mean being that they're yeah
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: This is the first unit that showed up. Looks like there's a pro printer to show up. Yeah, of course. Of course, it's just- he just saw the video of cops killing his dad, of course.
Taisyn: Yeah, and so.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And this one is not even being aggressive. He's just standing there like, the hell?
Taisyn: The mom is... Exactly. But they're arguing with each other. Like, family dispute. Family dispute, right? Hands in his pockets, not making any sort of aggressive threat.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, like cut it out Yeah. Well, he's probably scared that his brother is gonna get shot too. That's why you know I mean like after seeing your dad getting shot by the cops He's probably like yo knock it off. You know, I don't want you to get shot by the cops. You know saying Yeah
Taisyn: Exactly. chill out. And so that's their mom. You see she's trying to control him. This is the first officer. This is the one that put out, hey, can you show me out on the 415th right? And then you can hear us units responding. But again, he didn't go hand. He's just standing there, right? No active threat. Even if you want to wait for your partner before you go hands on. Well, here's your partner. He didn't go hands on. But then here's officer P just walks up and grabs the stuff. So now at this point, well yeah, they're all gonna go hands on now, right? But two officers, two officers arrived at the scene and didn't go hands on. Now when you turn, when Officer P turns them around is when you're gonna see his hand on his neck. So you see him putting his face in there?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. I see it, I see it, yeah? Yeah? What the crazy part is, what are you gonna charge them with? There's no complainant. There's no... Right.
Taisyn: ⁓ There was no charge. At the end, this case was, this scene, see, there's the hand part.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: It has to be dropped because there's no complaint and there's no probable cause to approach.
Taisyn: Yeah, no, they never got, there was no, there was no citation given, no one was arrested. That was it.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: It's crazy.
Taisyn: So that's it for that one. You can go ahead and pause it. ⁓ And then if you want to show my body-worn camera, because then you'll get my point of view of what I observed. And while you pull that up, I'll finish with this Sergeant, how he falsified the date of his complaint. He put that he submitted it February But ⁓ on, me and my attorney, we went through it and we found some discrepancies because he ended up saying he interviewed the corporal that was at the substation with me. He didn't say when he interviewed him, I the, ⁓ they it, but I got the ⁓ real that's not redacted and ⁓ Corporal ⁓ IA interview, he said he didn't get a phone call from Sergeant B to almost three days later to get his statement. So how did you put on the paperwork February 21st, but you didn't get a statement from Corporal L for another three days? ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: the You're doing the right thing. You're actually looking out for him.
Taisyn: You see how it was just like, crutch fail, crutch for crutch fail, not that. This other...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah You're you're actually looking out for him. I would have been like thanks, you know like this this
Taisyn: I'm like walk away. Am I is my voice elevated? Is it raised?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: No, nothing. would have I would have came to the side with you and blame. Hey, what's up? And then you're like, ⁓ calm down. You know, you're getting a little child like, thanks. You know, like, I appreciate it. You know what saying? Like, but this guy, what an asshole. up. I'm sorry to say he's a he's a fucking asshole. He's one of the guys that we call what call two boxes. He's a cool, you know, like.
Taisyn: So. ⁓ wait! So you want to know something? This incident happened in 2023. February of 2025, this same officer gets arrested for DUI.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Of can see it. I can see it.
Taisyn: rest for DUI.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And I can see him going home beating his wife. Like, he seems like that type of guy. You know what saying?
Taisyn: for DUI. Steven, he did not get placed on anyone's admin leave. He was at work the next day after being arrested with DUI. This is how this department operates. You can get arrested, you can take shots on duty, because I'm gonna get into that too, and nothing happens. But I get suspended for seven months, and here are my charges. You ready?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Well you get you wait wait wait wait wait wait they suspend you for seven months for that?
Taisyn: So this incident happens February. I work all February. I work all March and I work until mid April. I'm at home. I live 45 minutes east from Pasadena Police Department. I'm at home and I get a knock on my door and I'm like, who's at my door? It's my off day. Like who's I'm not expecting any guests. The IA Lieutenant, the white one, and then the other sergeant, the other IA sergeant is at my door.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Uh-huh.
Taisyn: They come to my house, confiscate my gun, they confiscate my badge, and they serve me with my IA paperwork. My charges, insubordination, disrespected officer, I pushed an like an assault charge, and my body-worn camera activated upon arrival of the scene.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: You never pushed them though. You never pushed them though. Like I don't see where the push is. I don't see where the insubordination is because you told me to go back to the station. All right. I'm assigned to the substation. going back to the substation. You know what I'm Disrespecting the officer. Hey, come over here. Calm down. That's not disrespect. It's not like you're cursing at him or something like that. Like is crazy. Look, don't really, I don't like pulling the race card, right? I don't like pulling it at all, but this ⁓
Taisyn: seven months. Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: It's because you're black female. You know what saying? Like, they're saying, here comes the rookie black female who thinks she could get away with things because she's black. And then they want to fucking retaliate against you and stuff like that. And that's crazy because we need more good cops like you to keep people in line. if don't want to, know, if the cop that was involved with the George Floyd incident went up to that white cop and said, yo, chill.
Taisyn: ⁓ 100%. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: You're on his fucking neck, he's his neck. You know what saying? The death could have been prevented. And all these riots and stuff like that could have been prevented. know, all this hate towards, you know, cops and stuff like that could have been prevented. Cops like this is what make policing bad. You know what I'm saying? And we need people more like you to hold accountability to these people. Like that's just crazy that you got seven months suspension for this? That's crazy.
Taisyn: and get off his back. ⁓ Hmm. So my IA paperwork says, you know, my probation is extended. I can't go to the department. I must call from 8 to 10, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? So I'm at home now. I'm at home now. And I want to say June. Month of June comes. And I remember waking up, and my Instagram notifications are just being blown up. And I'm like, what is happening?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, you gotta check in. Yeah
Taisyn: Article on top of article on top of article Pasadena PD is trying to fire black rookie officer for trying to de-escalate blah blah blah blah and ⁓ one these articles said black officer facing being fired for trying to de-escalate but cops drank on duty and Didn't get placed on admin leave and I'm like cops drank on duty. I'm like I didn't about this like this. This is fake news
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: A video gets leaked the media and it's five or so Pasadena police officers outside our jurisdiction who attended party of an off-duty police officer who was a probation officer like myself. And in this you see her pour tequila shots and walk them to the officers. They have police on their back and they start taking shots. So I think I put this one in the drop box too, if you want to show that video. And so I'm looking at this video and I'm like, hold on. Cops were drinking on the job. This incident happened in January. IA knew about it in March they refused to put any of these cops.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Is this video March 27th?
Taisyn: No, not that one. It say cops drinking on duty. Let me see. I can verify it
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I see a DUI arrest
Taisyn: Yeah, that's a sergeant. got alcohol issues.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I don't see any other videos, but I do see in the news when I Google you though
Taisyn: Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: the news put one of the party thing i think
Taisyn: So if you go through that drop box and hit cops drinking on duty, I think that's an article. Because Pasadena PD, they actually confirmed, in fact, cops were drinking on the job. And so I'm at home, like, why am I on admin leave for trying to do the right thing, and you got cops drinking on the job, and you left them working? You left them working.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. That's crazy.
Taisyn: And so I'm like, you know what? Forget this. I'm getting a civil rights attorney because I'm being treated poor and unfair and more like retaliatory toward because of trying to de-escalate.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: How long has this guy been on the job?
Taisyn: Officer P probably was on there a year. He probably has one year on me at Pasadena PD. I think he lateraled from the Sheriff's Department. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so, yeah, at this point, I'm like, I'm gonna retain an attorney because you can't tell me that, you know, I'm at home.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: So he's a rookie too. ⁓ that's why. His time transferred over, right?
Taisyn: for quote unquote being insubordinate, but you got cops drinking on the job.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: So I, yeah, I saw this one, right? And in this one, I'm gonna play this one.
Taisyn: Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I just want to say this incident right here, like when I heard this, I was like, wait a second, is this NYPD she's talking about? Cause the same thing is going on here, right? With the last administration, with Adams administration, there was a chief, chief Madri and like the other chiefs and stuff like that. And they're known notorious for known for like, you know, sleeping with female cops or pressuring them to sleep. with them and if they don't, if they don't, get punished. If they do, they get rewared like unlimited overtime, whatever they want to do and stuff like that. So this is very common. This whole sexual harassment thing is sexual assault. Shit is very, very common.
Taisyn: Well, the thing is, is that...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's your incident.
Taisyn: Yeah, that's my incident.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: After this I think they show the party. Right here at the party. Right? This is the party you talking about?
Taisyn: Are you? Mm-hmm. So you can see the officers there. That's when she hands it and then you'll see him take the screen.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: This is very common in NYPD also where they go to ⁓ police function and like parties and stuff like that in uniform because they're working and they couldn't make it and everybody else gets the day off and well we couldn't get the day off they would go and and go to the party and stuff like that but that that's very common too and it's just crazy so much nepotism and favoritism and stuff like that it's just crazy like this guy you know like
Taisyn: Yep. is. It is.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I can't believe they suspended you for seven months just for that. Like I saw the video just like you saw the video. Everybody here is going to see the video. Get suspended for seven months just for telling, hey, know, step to the side, bro. You you, you, you little up here. You know what mean? Like step to the side.
Taisyn: Thank you much. Well, for the...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Wow. So what happened? Did politicians help you? Did anybody come out to help you and stuff like that? What happened?
Taisyn: So listen to this. So the probation officer who gave the cops the alcohol, like myself, was on probation. admin leave, no probation extension or anything, but what we later found out is that her and the chief were like going out to dinners and meeting up. So this is why she didn't get punished for furnishing alcohol.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Uh-huh.
Taisyn: And she was IA'd for that. She was IA'd for conduct unbecoming. But if we're both getting IA'd, how do you put one probationer on admin leave and not the other one, and both were egregious acts? Drinking on duty is an egregious act. fast forward.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right. Right.
Taisyn: October I get a call from IA and they say, you're going to come back to work. We don't know, you know, going to happen with your IA. We don't have the disposition. Just come back to work. And I get back to work and immediately I'm served with another document that says my probation was extended for like another three weeks. So those three weeks by now puts us in November. Well, In November, I get off probation. They have me sign my probation eval. was great, right? You know, she got 13 arrests, was rewarded the mothers of drunk driving, which I didn't even get to go to my ceremony because no one told me that I was a candidate for it. You know, she got the Award. She doing this, this great probation eval. And they're like, if you like it, love it, sign it, date it, boom, you're off probation. Sign, sealed, and delivered. 30 seconds, Stephen, 30 seconds went by. The lieutenant, my lieutenant, and the commander came in and served me with a performance improvement plan. My performance improvement plan. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ huh. Mm-hmm. You just you just you just awarded me with cop of the year like basically like I'm saying like what are you talking about? Oh my god
Taisyn: My performance improvement plan contradicted everything the probation evaluation said.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right.
Taisyn: It said I made bad decisions. put stuff in there from what I did in college. So in college, you know, my background check, in college I had falsified my ⁓ placard and I'm, I'll tell everybody what I did. I don't care. I falsified it. I had a current one ready to go picked up. I had a knee surgery. I didn't feel like going into DMV. So I punched a hole in my one that expired. And so UC Irvine, come, they give me a citation. Case was dismissed because I did have a legit and a legit handicapped placard case dismissed this happened in college Stephen happened in college they put that on my performance improvement plan and they I don't make good decisions look what she did in college so you're putting something on my performance improvement plan before I was hired
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right. This is the thing, right? With bad evaluation thing, they're trying to dirty you up to make you seem like you're a bad cop. And then when you decide to sue or expose them, they're going to say, this person disgruntled, whatever, and stuff like that. And look at it, look at them. They were back performing cop and stuff like that. They did that to me. So it is a common tactic. They do that to everybody. We even with Javier. You know that was whistle-blowing in Illinois and stuff like that. Every cop spoke to every law enforcement even in FBI Every ⁓ enforcement I spoke to there's whistle-blow they do that right now I'm just I'm just so disgusted like like ⁓
Taisyn: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm But how do you put something in my pip that was in my background that you hired me on?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Because they couldn't find anything, because they couldn't find anything. Right. And that's the thing. But, you know, if you dig deep enough on somebody, you're going to find something. Right. Everybody has some kind of, some kind of thing. This guy Jaywalk three times in the street, the street. So they'll find something to pin on you. Right. And only because they couldn't find anything wrong with you doing anything wrong.
Taisyn: exactly. Mm-hmm.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: and so they have to go into your past where it's like ⁓ when she was like three years old she didn't change her diaper like come on like they're saying it's just stupid stuff it just disgusts me they're just dumb they're just go ahead i'm sorry i'm sorry go ahead
Taisyn: It's crazy. So, so they use, so in this PIP they used stuff I did in college, stuff I did in the academy. They said, you know, you talked back to the DI staff and in the academy I did talk back to one of the DI staff because he didn't let me take my inhaler and I had told him I need to take my inhaler and he told me no. What I later found out is that Pasadena police officer was friends with this DI staff. We went to the, I went to the LA County Sheriff's Academy. He was friends with this drill instructor. he told the drill instructor to make sure I don't pass the Academy to wash me out. So this drill instructor goal was to have me fail the Academy. ⁓ yeah, I had a hit on me in the Academy. My stuff with Pasadena PD started back in the Academy. This guy who was my pre Academy instructor did not like me, caught up his friend and said make sure you wash her out. So during the Academy I was targeted so much bad peer evaluation. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Why do they target you and the academy?
Taisyn: He didn't like me. This guy did not like me.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, you had had a target on your back from the very beginning Yeah
Taisyn: from the beginning, from the moment I stepped in Pasadena PD. the reason why I think I had a target on my back was because my name in the city of Pasadena is so big. My last name, my dad is like a high school legend out there. My mom is, the community knows us. City council, you know, went to school with my parents. So when first got sworn in, ⁓ like mayor gave me huge accolades. Like, you know, I know her dad and I'm so glad to have her on the police.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's great.
Taisyn: department, you know, she's this, she comes from a very good community, a very good family. So he gave me all these flowers and here you are, you have all these racist cops sitting here during the city council not liking that I have ties the mayor and people from the community. So their goal from the jump was to get me out. They wanted me out. And so... Pretty much, yeah, had hit on me in the academy. This guy was trying to get me washed out. same guy at Pasadena that knew the guy at the academy, he referenced me as a black female dog. The instructor told me that I was gonna end up on the memorial wall. I'm gonna get people killed and injured, and I'm a piece of shit. He said all this. Yeah. Yeah. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Those are death threats. I would have took it as death threats. That's just crazy.
Taisyn: So all this stuff was on my performance improvement plan. Stuff that happened in the academy. They put the IA in there. Now mind you, I didn't get my disposition back from the IA. So you're putting my IA in my pit. And we don't even know if I'm guilty or not. So all these stuff dated the same day as my probation eval that was positive. So a few months later, I get my IA disposition back.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right.
Taisyn: none of my allegations are sustained. And I forgot to tell you, they had hit me with a lying charge. They tried to say I lied about something. which wasn't true. Pretty much they tried to say I lied and they interviewed me a second time with the lying charge and said, we think you knew the family from your incident. And I'm like, why would you think I know the family? Well, you know, in your first IA interview, you said you had previous encounters with them. And so we went and we dug up some of your body-worn camera and you responded to another call with these two sons in a large group and you were talking to the sons, you know, very respectful and very calm. so we just think you know them. And I said, I know of them because I patrol the area they live in. I'm assigned to their beat. you're assigned to a specific beat, you're going to start knowing people. You're going to start seeing people. You're going to get familiar with people. ⁓ like, just because I say hi, and I'm nice, and I'm respectful, and I don't come in hot and grab people. And I said this in my IA interview. said, just because I don't come in hot and just grab people and escalate things, that doesn't mean that I know these people. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. Right. Yeah Yeah. Right, doesn't mean that we're friends, like I'm respectful to everybody. You know, so, know, I talk nice to everybody because I'm a good person. You know what saying? Like.
Taisyn: Yeah. Yeah. So they tried to say, yeah. They tried to hit me with the lying charge. So anyways, all these charges not sustained. But I'm still put on this pit that has the whole IA.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I'm they didn't put criminal association on that. you know these people, so there's criminal associating. Like, ⁓
Taisyn: At this point, so I didn't get backed up on a guy with a gun call. My parents had did the first press conference December 4th of 2023. That's when we just started exposing them. I later go into work that evening. I respond to a guy with a gun call. A lieutenant had to go over the radio and ask for somebody to back me up because no one backed me up. And so just because of all these different situations, I ended up
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: They want you to get killed that's why that's what happened to Sorkico like he never got any backup because they wanted to you know and get killed they they want you to they want you to get hurt while you're out there, which is crazy. how is this department?
Taisyn: Yes! Yeah. About 230 sworn.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: okay. It's a small department. So they're very tight. So it's like if you don't, if you're not probably quick, you're fucked. ⁓ ⁓
Taisyn: Yeah, yeah. Yes, everybody knows everybody. Yeah, and so the other thing is is that June June 2024 I go ahead and I you know do my resignation constructively discharge. I can't stay here. You guys are putting my safety at risk. You know the retaliation is crazy. So I leave Pasadena PD and then I get employed with another department, but this department is smaller. It's a university sort of PD, you know, not a lot of opportunities, special assignments aren't really there, and I took a massive pay cut. long short, I filed my lawsuit, you know, my attorneys, we've been in this for three years now. We were supposed to have trial mid-March, a week before trial, or not a week, a month before trial, my judge, who is a white judge, prior military, so to our military people, but you know how it is when you have... Yeah. So, my judge dismisses my and literally sides the city on everything.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: They look out for each other.
Taisyn: It was about seven of us suing. Two other guys hopped on my case with me. They got to settle. But the judge dismissed mine. he dismissed it based on not enough trialable facts that a jury will reasonably believe that you were a victim of discrimination, harassment, retaliation. Stuff where he was like, you know, you got caught a black dog, but it wasn't by a supervisor and you never reported it until now when you filed a lawsuit. You didn't get backed up on the guy with a gun call, but based off what they submitted, the city submitted and their CAD entry, it was only 10 seconds. It 10 seconds. It was two minutes from the the call got dispatched out to the moment the lieutenant asked for me to get backed up. Two minutes went by.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: And I want to point that right so I worked in East Flatbush in Brownsville in in New York City in NYPD When you're at a gunfight or when when you go to a gun call two minutes is a very long time Two minutes is very very long. So I know like, you know the public's in there's only two minutes when you're in a gunfight two minutes is very very long Your adrenaline is pumping. Everything's in slow motion. It feels like it's forever. it's two minutes is a very long time for you not to get any kind of response or call for backup or whatever. Cause in NYPD, once there's like a gun run, everybody's going right away. The radio call it's right away. You know what saying? Show me going, show me going, show me going. Right.
Taisyn: Yes. Yes. Exactly. A lieutenant shouldn't have to go over the air. Yeah, a lieutenant shouldn't have to go over the air and say, can someone back her up?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, it's automatic. It's automatic. Once you hear like, oh, officer needs assistance and 1310, 1085. That's those are our codes, right? Or a man with a gun or even like angry, like priority calls what we call 30s, right? So like a 30 would be a robbery. A 31 is like, you know, whatever 34 is an assault in progress, stuff like that. Right. Even with 30s, everybody's going. Show me going, show me going, show me on the backup, show me in the backup.
Taisyn: Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right and then the supervisor will actually have to say Stop, we have enough people stop coming Resume patrol, you know, but everybody's going so it's two minutes for everybody to like be crickets know, they're fucking with you That's that's crazy and for him for him to be a military to even know that like because i'm if he was a combat Veteran, will know two minutes is a very fucking long time and for his mobile to respond to when you have contact and for nobody to respond
Taisyn: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Sufficient units. Yes! Yes!
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: They know shit off the back. Why isn't anybody responding? Like they're fucking with me. You what I'm Like it's just, that's just crazy. It's I'm sorry that you went through all this, man. It's just for that incident too. And it's just, but thing is, since you said that you will target since the academy, I could see that it's ongoing thing. It's not just because of this situation is because they never liked you. They wanted to get rid of you from the get go. And so they took this opportunity to like try to fuck with you. You know what saying? Which is
Taisyn: exactly. For sure.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Which is fucked up. You know, that's, that's the problem with small departments too. They're so, they're so clicky. So.
Taisyn: They are. Well, I remember department, was PD out here in California. They had like an all-woman combat shooting training. And so training coordinator had flew the email to the department and was like, hey, we recommend, you know, females to go to this. ⁓ so like eight us in it, eight females, seven Hispanic females got to go. denied.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Mm-hmm. 7 out of 8
Taisyn: I couldn't go.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That's crazy. That's crazy. It's because they recognize your name. It's because they recognize your name. It's just...
Taisyn: I couldn't go. I was denied training. Yeah. But the department, no, it was Pasadena. Pasadena let them go. They didn't let me go.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right, but I'm saying somebody who ever reviewed it was probably looking at the names like, this girl. No, you know what I'm It's just crazy. So where's your, where's your, you're at a university, you're a university cop now, campus police and stuff like that. First of all, I applaud you for even wanting to do the job still. You know what I'm
Taisyn: Yep. Yep. Yeah. ⁓ it's hard. It's hard. You know?
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, because I have PTSD where it's like people are like, ⁓ do you actually come back when you go back? And I'll be like, no, you know, wouldn't go back unless you put me in a position where I'm changing stuff. Right. But if you're putting me back as a sergeant, whatever, where I can't change anything and I'm going to go do this all over again. No, I'm not. I'm not going back. Right. But for you to want to become police officer, even in a different county and stuff like that, or a different place is I applaud you for that. That takes strength. You know,
Taisyn: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I wish, know, I wish the mayor would have been like, Hey, you know, let's promote this girl and have her like change the department for the better and stuff like that. But I know that's not going to happen because nobody wants beef with the police department. You know, it's just. ⁓
Taisyn: They all stick together, even with my judge. mean, he literally, like I said, not one single allegation was in favor of me. Dismissed my case.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Right. So now you're fighting this appeal, correct?
Taisyn: So what I actually found out yesterday was that now city wants to come after me for fees because they're trying to say my case was frivolous.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: What? They want to cat? What do mean? They're suing you now? We're bringing a case against them?
Taisyn: They're trying to ⁓ hold me accountable for their attorney fees and costs by trying to get the judge to agree on. Now the only thing is, now I don't trust the judge, so they're trying to get the judge to agree on that my case shouldn't have been brought forward in the first place. They're trying to rule it as frivolous, so then I have to pay them their attorney fees. Yep.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: That like never happens. That never happens. Cause they're on a poor world anyway. Right. That's crazy. Well, here's your GoFundMe. So if anybody who's listening to this and stuff and want to help out, you know, this would go to a legal fees and stuff like that and, you know, help her get by and everything while they're doing this, because I know how it is like being in the gutter and being down, you spend all your savings on legal fees on this battle and stuff, then harassing you and then doing more legal legal obstacles in front of you is where you have to hire a lawyer and stuff like that. So you're
Taisyn: Yeah, I'm trying to, I'm in the process of trying to appeal. My attorney is an appellate attorney. He is a civil rights attorney, so he doesn't practice appeal. So I have to now get referred out, try to get an appeal attorney, but they charge by hour and they require an upfront fee. And so I'm getting...
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Bye. Yeah, I mean, we're going to try to get you in contact with the government accountability project and Tom Devine over at the government accountability project. They're aces with that. ⁓ I'll give you the info for that, but also just in case, you know, like because they're always taking cases that they're always, you know, maybe they didn't have too many cases and stuff like that, but they definitely did help. Right. ⁓ But I will post this and the government accountability project link on the bottom and your social media. So if anybody wants to reach out and further
Taisyn: Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: highlight your situation, they could do that right? ⁓ It's a shame man, it's just really f'ed up what's going on.
Taisyn: Yes. It's like the cops that do good and you know, try to do their best and try to, you know, withhold like from being, yeah, from being like part of the corruption and the good old boys club. Like we always get punished. We always get punished. Like there was a Sergeant in one of the Dropbox. He was being investigated for DUI. He takes off running from CHP and
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: We get fucked. We get fucked. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we get fucked. We get fucked.
Taisyn: He's still a sergeant there.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Yeah, we get fucked, you know, and again, I don't want to the race card, but as minorities, as you being black and me being Asian and stuff like that, we get fucked extra hard. If you were you if you were a blonde white girl and you were touching him and say, hey, go over there. He'd be like, oh, OK, sweetie. You know, you know, say I'm telling you, it's I'm not I'm not racist. You know, I love white people. You don't say, right?
Taisyn: Yeah. No, for real. Yep. You're 100 % correct. It's the culture. It's the culture.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I love everybody, but I'm just letting you know there is racism for people that right Right. It's you know, it's the good old boys, know saying like it mentality is there for people to say all there's no such thing as racism in NYPD I'm like Man, you need to wake the fuck up bro. Like you need to wake the fuck up. Yeah, so is there anything else that you want to share like before we wrap this up like Damn, I'm so upset right now
Taisyn: Yes. Yeah, 100 % Yeah, I mean pretty much, you know, I fought for three years, the case. There's four pending lawsuits with minorities who are suing, passing a PD. Two of guys, they got settled. The judge let them settle, but came after hard. And now we're in this situation where I have like 26 left to try to appeal and fight back. And that's where we're at. ⁓
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: ⁓ man. I'm going to give you all the info for government accountability project with the context I have there. And I really hope that, know, Tom Devine will take your case and stuff like that. They're based out of Washington, D.C., but they do federal cases you know, they could help you with the appeal and stuff like that. You know, I'm ⁓
Taisyn: Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: I'm just appalled by that.
Taisyn: Yeah. And this is the same cop that was drinking on the job. In that one video from March 27th, a citizen goes up to him and is like, how are you handing out tickets when you be drunk? You got arrested for, you know, DUI back in February. I think it was February 5th. He fact checks her and go, it was February 2nd and the case got dismissed. Yeah.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Of course. request. ⁓ my god, it's because he's in their crew. He's in their quick. ⁓ That's what I'm saying. It's like a gang. call it what it is. It's like a gang. They out for their own and it's just ⁓ crazy. thank you. Thank you all you've Thank you for being strong. Stay strong. We'll keep in contact and I'm going try to...
Taisyn: he can get away with it. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Thank you.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: get you some lawyers to help you out. Yeah. Thank you. But it's so sad to hear you go. Absolutely. Absolutely. And if anybody else out there who want to share their story, you know, and that's getting any play out there, because I know us whistleblowers, we get ignored all time. Feel free to reach out to me. System.unfiltered at know, Steve New York at gmail.com.
Taisyn: Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you for giving me the platform to tell my story.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: Check my social medias everywhere. You contact me, you know, and I hope you win this man. I hope you win this because it would be a big victory for everybody. Yeah. Hopefully, hopefully you'll win it where you hit them in their fucking pockets and it'll hurt them. And then they'll be like, we will never fuck with another black female ever again. Seriously. Like that's where you got to hit them. You got to them in their freaking pockets. That's the only way you hurt them. But thank you. Thank you so much for coming on.
Taisyn: Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yup. Thank you. ⁓ I appreciate it. Thank you so much. We'll talk soon.
Former NYPD Sgt. Steven Lee: You know, God bless you. Yeah, God bless you. Yeah
