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New York City Police Sergeant Charged With Murder in Bronx Woman’s Death

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/...n-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

The arrest of the sergeant, Hugh Barry, follows months of investigation into the deadly encounter with the 66-year-old woman, Deborah Danner.

Within hours of the death, the sergeant was stripped of his badge and gun and placed on modified duty — despite the police, in their initial account, saying that Ms. Danner had swung a bat at the sergeant.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, said Sergeant Barry had failed to follow police protocol for dealing with people with mental illness. Specifically, he did not use his stun gun to try to subdue Ms. Danner, and he did not wait for a specialized Emergency Service Unit to arrive.

On Wednesday afternoon, Sergeant Barry, 31, appeared in court in the Bronx, dressed in a suit with his hands cuffed behind his back. Standing before Judge Robert A. Neary, Sergeant Barry kept his eyes forward as his lawyer, Andrew Quinn, entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. Judge Neary set bail at $100,000, and Sergeant Barry was escorted from the courtroom.
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Are we seeing a cultural change where Police can and will be charged in more lethal cases?
I am referring to the Chicago shooting that can be used as a study in political interference within the Justice system

Chicago police officer charged with 16 new counts in shooting case: media | Reuters

Pick your own link to bone up on this disaster

https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei...hago+shooting+officer+charged+Laquan+McDonald
 
If cops commit crimes including murder they should rightfully be punished for these crimes, just like any other citizen. I doubt you will find many that disagree with that here. The problem is our media likes to only pick out certain cases where the victim is 100% African American and often times the cases are entirely justified. It creates a "boy that cried wolf" scenario where a lot of people simply shrug off serious violations that might be investigated if the left didn't try and consistently make up horror story cases that simply didn't happen.
 
JANFU said:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/...lumn-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0



Are we seeing a cultural change where Police can and will be charged in more lethal cases?
I am referring to the Chicago shooting that can be used as a study in political interference within the Justice system

Chicago police officer charged with 16 new counts in shooting case: media | Reuters

Pick your own link to bone up on this disaster

https://www.google.ca/?gfe_rd=cr&ei...hago+shooting+officer+charged+Laquan+McDonald
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The NYPD, LAPD, and Chicago PD are in a carousel of one-upsmanship on which one is gonna reign supreme as Most Corrupt Police Department. The LAPD are infamous for shamelessly beating the crap out of anyone anytime, anywhere but they don't do it so often.

The Chicago PD run drugs, murder people and get away with it, and will torture you at secret "black site" locations.

But NYPD also seems to find a way to take the lead. They are corrupt in a multitude of ways and their stop and frisk program was literally justified when one of their members in a leadership position was secretly recorded saying "GO OUT THERE AND ARREST SOME BLACK PEOPLE". And of course their union goes by the terrifyingly Orwellian name of "Patrolman's Benevolent Association". I'm surprised the don't give up the pretense and call their union the "MINISTRY OF LOVE".
 
NYC bosses will end up deeply regretting their lack of support of the police.
 
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