Pacha hired a former NYPD lieutenant to run security. All 18 of his substantiated misconduct cases were against Black people.
Pacha, the reopened East Williamsburg venue, hired former NYPD Lt. Henry Daverin as head of security despite his record of 18 substantiated misconduct cases—all against Black individuals—raising community concerns in Brooklyn.
Pacha hired a former NYPD lieutenant to run security. All 18 of his substantiated misconduct cases were against Black people.
Pacha, the reopened East Williamsburg venue, hired former NYPD Lt. Henry Daverin as head of security despite his record of 18 substantiated misconduct cases—all against Black individuals—raising community concerns in Brooklyn.
The giant East Williamsburg venue that spent last year trying to convince the city it had cleaned up its act, the old Brooklyn Mirage, reopened this month as Pacha. To run security at the door, it hired a man the state attorney general’s office says ran a pattern of illegal stops and searches. According to data compiled by 50-a.org, every single one of his substantiated cases was against a Black person.
His name is Henry Daverin, and Pacha’s director of security is the job he holds now. According to the Brooklyn Paper, Daverin racked up 18 substantiated allegations of misconduct over a 14-year NYPD career, was named in 21 lawsuits that cost the city more than $1.5 million in settlements, and retired in 2022.
In 2024 the NYPD itself referred Daverin to the state Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office, which concluded that he “engaged in a pattern of illegal stops, searches and…
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