Allegations:
As 16-year-old P.R. was sitting with friends on a neighbor's stoop, Officer Chapello walked up to the group and accused them of vandalizing a new condominium building nearby. P.R. was talking on his cellphone and ignored Chapello, who got angry and began yelling at the teen. Chapello then threw his police star to the ground, threatened to fight P.R., grabbed him by the throat and pushed him against the railing of the stoop. The stoop broke and P.R. fell to the ground. P.R.'s father, Pedro Rangel, came outside and found his son on the ground and asked the officer what happened. Chapello refused to tell him, then called for other officers to come to the scene. When the father kept asking for an explanation, the officers grabbed him, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him, hit and kicked him several times and arrested him.