A Queens police officer is under investigation by the NYPD for treating a Dunkin’ Donuts in the Rockaways like a free buffet. Sgt. Eric Turetsky took coffee, doughnuts, and was even brazen enough to walk behind the counter “to make himself sandwiches and cram his face full of crullers.” |NYP|
A cyclist assaulted by a former rookie cop in Times Square last year is filing a $1.5 million lawsuit against the NYPD for attempting to cover up the unprovoked attack. 30-year-old Christopher Long was bicycling through Times Square as part of a July 2008 Critical Mass ride when then-cop Patrick Pogan, just three weeks on the job, tackled him to the pavement. Read more »
An innocent cab driver, imprisoned for 9 months in 2002 after an undercover cop lied about buying 100 Ecstasy pills from him, has received a $1.5 million settlement from the city. The perjuring cop wasn’t even working the day he falsely claimed the cabbie sold him drugs. |Newsday|
The video of rookie cop Patrick E. Pogan (shield #28957) violently body checking cyclist Christopher Long during a Critical Mass group ride has a lot of people wondering what motivated him to act in such a blatantly egregious manner. Contrary to the video evidence and universal common sense, the cop (deponent) claimed—in a sworn statement—that Long swerved and then ran into him, “causing deponent to fall to the ground and causing deponent to suffer lacerations on deponent’s forearms” (PDF doc here). However, as the clip demonstrates, that’s not the case and the attack was unprovoked. Why is Officer Perjurer Pogan so angry? ANIMAL takes a look into some of the potential, hostility-causing factors: UPDATE: All charges dropped!
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