Brooklyn NYPD captain sues top chief for sexual harassment and retaliation

July 17, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff

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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — A POLICE VETERAN from a family of NYPD officers sued a top chief for unwanted romantic physical contact at a Sept. 6, 2022, incident that happened at the 84th Precinct station house, reports the Daily News. Although the suit was filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the officers involved served Brooklyn. The plaintiff is Capt. Gabrielle Walls, a 23-year veteran who accused Assistant Chief Scott Henderson of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North of trying to kiss her and running his hand along her arm. Promoted four months earlier and assigned to the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, she demonstrated potential for a command post. After the incident, Henderson promoted all men to precinct commanders to the 10 Brooklyn North posts, even though Walls said she had more seniority. Walls was reportedly transferred to a precinct in Queens following a meeting she had earlier this month with NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey.

Captain Walls’ attorney, John Scola, told the Daily News, “Until the NYPD implements systemic changes to eradicate sexual harassment in the workplace, dedicated civil servants like Captain Walls will continue to see their careers unjustly destroyed.”

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