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Police Pursuit Not Justified by Defendant’s “Grabbing of his Waistband Area” or Subsequent Flight/Gun Suppressed

The Second Department affirmed the suppression of a weapon.  After seeing the defendant “grab… his waistband area” the police approached and the defendant ran, ultimately discarding a gun.  The pursuit was not justified by what the police saw prior to the defendant’s flight:

A suspect’s “flight alone . . . even [his or her flight] in conjunction with equivocal circumstances that might justify a police request for information, is insufficient to justify pursuit” … . However, flight, “combined with other specific circumstances indicating that the suspect may be engaged in criminal activity, could provide the predicate necessary to justify pursuit” … .Under the circumstances of this case, the defendant’s “grabb[ing]” of his “waistband area” in such a way that it “[s]eemed” to the detectives that the defendant “had a bulge or something heavy that he was holding on the outside of his garments,” did not constitute specific circumstances indicative of criminal activity so as to establish the reasonable suspicion that was necessary to lawfully pursue the defendant, even when coupled with the defendant’s having made eye contact with the detectives and his flight from the detectives … . As the detectives’ pursuit of the defendant was unlawful, and the defendant’s disposal of the weapon during the pursuit was precipitated by the illegality and was not attenuated from it …, the Supreme Court properly granted that branch of the defendant’s omnibus motion which was to suppress the weapon. People v Haynes, 2014 NY Slip Op 01462, 2nd Dept 3-5-14

 

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