NYPD Officers run into bicyclist while driving on the wrong side of the road, leave him bloodied and fail to file a report

NYPD Officers Louis Ramos, Paris Anderson in hot water after running into bicyclist
By William Sherman and Rocco Parascandola
New York Daily News
Jun. 17, 2010

Two NYPD cops from Brooklyn driving on the wrong side of the street knocked over a bicyclist and then left the bloodied rider without filing a report, the Daily News has learned.

Officers Louis Ramos, 42, and Paris Anderson, 33, assigned to the 84th Precinct, were suspended without pay after the Monday afternoon incident, at least part of which was captured on surveillance video, police said yesterday.

The officers, sources said, should have remained at the scene - Sands and Jay Sts. - notified a supervisor that they had been involved in an accident and filed a report.

Anderson and Ramos said they thought the man just fell off his bicycle after being startled by the patrol car's lights and sirens, a source said. It was unclear what the officers were responding to.

But police said the patrol car - being driven by Ramos north in Jay St.'s southbound lane, knocked the bicyclist into the street.

Ramos, a 19-year veteran, and Anderson, a six-year veteran, helped the victim to the sidewalk and gave him tissues to clean the cuts and abrasions on his face, arms and legs.

Then the cops drove off.

The bicyclist, who was not identified because the investigation is continuing, reported the incident to police.

"The big problem for them is that there was no paperwork on the incident," another source said. "For something like this there has to be documentation, even if there are minor injuries."

Stu London, a lawyer for the officers, had no comment.

Anderson and Ramos will be slapped with departmental charges and face a departmental trial.