AMERICAN JUDGES ARE AS CORRUPT AS THESE FILTHY THUG COPS BY VIRTUE OF THE FACT THEY LET THE ALL GO FREE TO MAINTAIN THE STATUS QUO OF COPS, LIKE LAWYERS AND JUDGES ARE ABOVE THE LAW.
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"Officers are rarely indicted for these abuses, and even more rarely convicted."
New York police officers
charged with raping
teenage suspect in custody
By
Daniel de Vries
4 November 2017
Two Brooklyn police officers were arraigned in New York State
court Monday, accused of raping a teenage woman while she was handcuffed in a
police van. A grand jury indicted the two narcotics detectives, Eddie Martins
and Richard Hall, on 50 counts including rape, sexual abuse, kidnapping and
official misconduct.
The officers surrendered at the police precinct Monday and were
released on bail after pleading not guilty.
Prosecutors recounted in court Monday the chilling charges of
Martins and Hall taking turns raping the 18-year-old woman. DNA evidence from a
rape test performed on the victim following the attack matched the two
detectives.
The two officers were part of a “buy and bust” drug operation near
Coney Island, Brooklyn on September 15. Cruising in an unmarked van, they
pulled up on a car with the young woman and two male friends in a parking lot
of a public park after closing hours.
Shining a flashlight through the window, one of the plain-clothed
officers noticed the woman adjust her bra. He demanded the she expose her
breasts to prove she wasn’t hiding drugs. She complied. The officers proceeded
to search the car and found a small amount of marijuana in a cup holder and a
few anti-anxiety pills.
The detectives took only the young woman into custody, handcuffing
her and driving her to a Chipotle parking lot in an adjacent neighborhood.
Detective Martins used his cell phone to call her friends and instruct them not
to follow the police van. They could pick her up in three hours from the police
precinct, the detective said.
According to the prosecution Martins told the woman, “We’re
freaks,” while seated with her in the back seated and asked what she wanted to
do to get out of the arrest. He tightened the handcuffs and forced the teen to
perform oral sex. Martins then pulled down her pants and raped her as his
partner watched in the rearview mirror. The two officers switched places, Hall
forcing her to perform oral sex. The woman begged for them to stop.
The officers then drove away towards the 60th Precinct in
Brooklyn, releasing the victim on a nearby street corner. Before she left, they
forced her to take an anti-anxiety pill and warned her to keep her mouth shut.
She did not.
After speaking to a friend, she went to Maimonedes Medical Center
to document the rape.
“I’m completely brutalized by the rape. My life is in shatters,”
the victim later explained via her attorney Michael David. “Now every time I
see any police, I’m in a panic.”
The officers, who do not deny having sexual relations with the
woman in custody but claim it was consensual, face up to 25 years in prison if
convicted.
The brutalization of the teen adds to a long line of horrific
abuses by the NYPD, including the sodomization of Abner Louima with a broom
stick in 1997 and scores of police murders since then. Sean Bell, Ramarley
Graham, and Eric Garner are just a few of the most prominent among those
murdered by New York police.
Another, less publicized victim, Delrawn Small, was gunned down
last year by off-duty NYPD officer Wayne Isaacs, who is currently on trial for
murder and manslaughter. The killing of Small was captured on video, exposing
the lie Isaacs concocted of being repeatedly punched prior to the shooting.
The systemic harassment by the NYPD and daily abuse extends throughout
working class neighborhoods in New York, including the predominantly white
neighborhood near Coney Island involved in the rape case, as well as black and
Latino neighborhoods across the five boroughs.
In Brownsville, a largely African American neighborhood in
Brooklyn, a grandmother said she was held under house arrest by police last
week as they waited for the woman’s daughter to arrive home. Police stood guard
inside and outside the apartment, without a warrant, for 16 hours. When they
finally left they issued the woman a summons for marijuana allegedly found in
her son’s bedroom.
In the Bronx, the 42nd police precinct alone has settled 16
separate lawsuits in the last four years for abuse and wrongful arrest. In one
case, Juan Ramirez was hospitalized with bruised lungs, fractured ribs and
internal bleeding over an incident involving a broken mirror on a police car.
Officers beat and jolted Ramirez with a Taser, yet claimed they did not use
force when arresting him.
Officers are rarely indicted for these abuses, and even more
rarely convicted.
New York City police
officer acquitted of murder charges in killing of Delrawn Small
By
Sandy English
New York City police
officer acquitted of murder charges in killing of Delrawn Small
By
Sandy English
8 November 2017
On Monday, Wayne Isaacs, a police officer with the New York City
Police Department (NYPD), was acquitted by a jury of murder and manslaughter
charges for the killing of Delrawn Small in Brooklyn on July 4, 2016. The
decision was made although surveillance video footage showed Isaacs fire from
his car as Small approached it. Isaacs also admitted the he failed identify
himself as a police officer.
The incident took place in the early hours of July 4, 2016 in the
East New York Section of Brooklyn. Isaacs allegedly cut off Small in his car,
and when Small went to Isaacs car to speak to him, Isaacs, who had just gotten
off duty, fired three shots from his revolver from his window.
Surveillance camera video shows
Small staggering from the gunshots and collapsing nearby. Isaacs can then
clearly be seen leaving his car, walking up to Small, and getting back in his
vehicle without rendering first-aid to Small, who bled to death on the
pavement. Zaquanna Albert, Small’s girlfriend, was in the car at the time, and
two of her children sat in the back seat.
Isaacs stated in his initial report that Small had punched him,
although no blow can be seen in the video. Small simply walks up to Isaac’s
window and then almost immediately collapses from the force of the bullets.
The police officer’s attorneys focused on Small’s large size and
alleged that Isaacs must have feared for his life.
Isaacs was the first police officer in New York State to be tried
under Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2015 executive order which empowered
the attorney general to “investigate and prosecute officers for civilian deaths
at their hands or in their custody.”
Isaacs may still face an internal NYPD investigation.
Nevertheless, the outcome has been no different from that of the
scores of cops every year who are acquitted, never brought to trial, or, in the
exceedingly rare cases of convictions, given lenient sentences for killing
unarmed citizens.
Notably, in New York City these include police officers such as
Richard Haste, whose manslaughter indictment was dismissed by a judge in the
case of his shooting of Ramarley Graham in Graham’s apartment in the Bronx in
2012; Daniel Pantaleo, who was never indicted for his video-recorded strangling
of Eric Garner in Staten Island in July 2014; and Peter Liang, who shot Akai
Gurley in a Brooklyn housing project in November 2014 and was convicted of
manslaughter but never served a day in jail.
Haste resigned from the NYPD in 2017 after it was reported that a
departmental review had found him at fault for Graham’s death. Meanwhile
Pantaleo remains on duty with the NYPD and has not been the subject of internal
NYPD charges and the Obama administration Justice Department refused to bring
federal civil rights charges against him.
One significant aspect of the death of Delrawn Small was that it
received considerably less attention in the corporate media than the other
recent cases, especially Graham and Garner.
The reason is not hard to discern: in the first two cases, the
officer who committed the crime was white and the victim was black; in the case
of Isaacs and Small, both were African-American. It is impossible to cover, let
alone editorialize, on this killing from the standpoint of identity politics, which
the New York Times and
other media outlets do on a regular basis.
Small’s family and others were less convinced
that the essential
feature of this killing race,
but rather police impunity for crimes
committed
against workers.
At a rally held after the verdict, the family’s lawyer, Roger
Wareham, noted that there was a “culture of impunity in the New York Police
Department. Deadly force was not justified. He was unarmed …The issue is
there’s no justification for a police officer to shoot an unarmed civilian.”
Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner, also spoke at the rally.
“Here we are again,” she said. “This has got to stop. We are held accountable
for our wrongdoings; they must be held accountable for theirs.”
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