Ibrahim pleaded not guilty to the charges in South Boston Municipal Court July 31.
On Aug. 7, he was found dangerous by Judge Margaret F. Albertson and is being held without bail for 120 days, records show.
In the video, Hickey can be seen approaching the driver’s side of Ibrahim’s Jeep that he pulled over for having a too dark front windshield, according to Hickey’s report filed in court.
Both men seem calm and Ibrahim tells Hickey that he works for the city of Boston, is in the neighborhood to pick up his daughter, and calmly hands over his driver’s license.
Hickey asks Ibrahim if he has been arrested in the past, and Ibrahim answers that he has been arrested for “all types of nonsense.” Hickey then asks if a gun was involved, and Ibrahim replies, “yeah but nothing recently, not in like the last five years.”
While they are conversing, Ibrahim picks up a bag and Hickey asks him to open a backpack he noticed and to show him the contents, the report said.
Ibrahim then pulls the bag away from Hickey and abruptly places the car in drive, Hickey wrote.
“I dove headfirst into the vehicle and began pleading with Ibrahim: ‘Stop! Stop, homie! You’re going to make this worse!” Hickey wrote.
Video from the cruiser’s dashcam shows the trooper’s jackboots dangling from the driver’s side window, as passing cars slow down around the struggling pair.
In the body-cam video, Hickey thrusts out his hand towards the gear shift to put Ibrahim’s car in park, then draws his taser and deploys it into Ibrahim’s abdomen.
“You’re going to (expletive) kill someone, homie!” Hickey yells during the struggle, the report stated.
At this point, Hickey’s body worn DSLR stops recording. The Globe was provided a copy of the recording submitted by Suffolk District Attorney Kevin R. Hayden’s office for an Aug. 7 dangerousness hearing for Ibrahim.
Hickey wrote that he dropped the Taser and once again reached towards the gear shift. He wrote that Ibrahim then picked up the Taser and deployed it into the trooper’s abdomen.
“I felt an intense electric current surge through my upper torso, causing excruciating pain,” Hickey wrote. “I struck Ibrahim in the face twice with closed fists and fish-hooked his mouth in an attempt to twist his head and gain control of his body.”
After being struck, Hickey said Ibrahim gave up, and allowed the trooper and an off-duty Boston police officer, who noticed the struggle and ran over, to handcuff him, the report stated.
In the car, wrapped in a sweatshirt, Hickey found the Glock loaded with 13 bullets and the switch, according to court records. Ibrahim did not have a license to carry the handgun, Hickey wrote.
Mayor Wu told WCVB-TV, which first broke the story, that her administration is reviewing how Ibrahim was hired given his criminal history. He has since been placed on leave.
“We have many programs that the city has created to ensure that individuals can get a second chance, who have done their time, put in the work to support themselves and take care of their lives and reentering our community have a pathway, where it’s appropriate,” Wu told the station.
At the dangerousness hearing, Assistant District Attorney Christian Bernard told Judge Albertson that Ibrahim was convicted as a juvenile of gun-related violence charges and ordered to serve five years in Department of Youth Services custody.
During the same hearing, defense attorney Peter T. Marano conceded that Ibrahim’s criminal history and the charges he faces – especially allegedly possessing a machine gun – qualified for a finding of dangerousness.
But he also told the judge that Ibrahim is the ”sole breadwinner” and the supporter of his girlfriend, his sister, his two children, and five nieces. He said Ibrahim’s girlfriend and sister will immediately have to find work outside the home.
“He is the sole breadwinner here,” Marano said. “That leaves seven small children, quite possibly, with nobody home to take care of. That’s an issue that’s concerning.”
Ibrahim completed his five year sentence with DYS and then was hired by the city in the Property Management Department 14 months ago and has since been assigned to the graffiti removal division, Marano said in court.
Marano added that another aspect of Ibrahim’s job is to convince teenagers there is a potential for engaging in gang activity using graffiti.
Part of “his job with the city is he attends community meetings for youth at risk and try to explain the dangers of how this graffiti can lead to violence and whatnot, and why it’s being removed and how it’s indicative of what we would for a lack of better terms, say, gang related issues,” Marano told the judge.
Marano did not return a telephone call from the Globe Tuesday.
John R. Ellement can be reached at john.ellement@globe.com. Follow him @JREbosglobe. Truman Dickerson can be reached at truman.dickerson@globe.com.
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