4 black officers held at gunpoint by white cops

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• Four New York African-American parole officers are seen in a video being held at gunpoint by police while on official state business

• Ramapo, New York officials say the officers did nothing wrong and were responding to a call of four people in a car wearing bulletproof vests

• The four officers filed a lawsuit claiming they wore proper identification and even had identification on their state vehicle

• The officers were reportedly detained for at least six minutes after being identified as law enforcement officials

Four African-American parole officers have filed a lawsuit against a New York town after being held at gunpoint and detained by local cops while on official state business.

Sstate parole officers, Mario Alexandre, Sheila Penister, Annette Thomas-Prince, and Samuel Washington, said they feared for their lives when Ramapo police and a Suffern cop pointed guns and an assault rifle at them during a stop in April 2014,The Journal News reports.

In a dash cam video of the incident recently obtained by the JN, police cars are seen boxing in the officers' state vehicle at a busy intersection in Airmont.

One officer is seen speeding up to the scene and blocking traffic before exiting his police SUV and immediately aiming his gun at the vehicle -- he is seen using his SUV as cover.

One of the parole officers, Alexandre, is seen with his hands in the air as he emerges from the vehicle.

Soon, the remaining officers -- two women and a man -- are ordered out of the car and a third cop carrying a rifle is shown approaching the group. At least five police officers were present.

The parole officers were reportedly held for at least six minutes after they were identified as state employees, IndyStar reports. No arrests were made.

The video was obtained by the JN under the Freedom of Information Law, according to IndyStar. The police involved were all reportedly white.

Later police said they were responding to a call from a local resident 'concerned about four individuals observed in bulletproof vests in an unmarked vehicle.'

However, the lawsuit,against the town, its police department, and others, states that the officers had an official sign on the dashboard: 'State of New York -- Executive Department -- Division of Parole.'

The suit also states that the four parole officers each wore department-issued bulletproof vests along with gold badges and identifications clearly displayed around their necks.

Police say the officers failed to extend the courtesy of alerting the department that they were in town.

Four police officers were identified as being involved in the incident: Ramapo police Lt. Robert Lancia, Capt., Sgt. Margaret Sammarone, Thomas Cokely, and Suffern Sgt. Edward Dolan were identified as being among the officers involved in the incident, according to the JN.


Police allegedly ran the plate of the officers' vehicle and confirmed that the four had been at a home in Suffern with an arrest warrant, the suit claims.

'I could rest assured I was dead that day,' Penister told ABC 7 of the incident in an interview last year.

Alexandre told ABC that when he presented his gold badge to police, an officer told him it could be a fake. He said the officer paid no attention when he turned the badge over revealing his identification.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...four-black-officers-held-gunpoint-police.html

 

[Infamous45]

we got officers pointing their guns at OTHER officers...

 

[Just like bruddas]

we got officers pointing their guns at blacks /QUOTE]

Fixed

 

[Bunchy Carter]

Back in 2009 there was a black cop who was killed by a white cop when he mistaken him for a criminal. The brother just got off of duty and saw someone breaking into his car and he chased after him. Some white cops saw him running and shot him; the white officer was not convicted because the criminal who broke into the brothers car testified for the white cop.

White officer kills black cop after mistaking him for criminal

ALISON GENDAR, ERICA PEARSON, BARRY PADDOCK, LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS 05/29/2009 12:32 PM ET

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/crime...rookie-shot-pursuing-suspect-article-1.372647

KEIVOM/NEWS
Police respond to scene in East Harlem on Thursday night where off-duty cop Omar Edwards was fatally shot by NYPD while in pursuit of carjack thief.
An off-duty rookie cop chasing a suspected car thief in East Harlem with his gun drawn was shot and killed Thursday night when an officer mistook him for a criminal.

"Police! Stop! Drop it!" cops from the 25th Precinct shouted at Omar Edwards, 25.

As he started to turn toward him - the gun still in his hand - an officer opened fire, sources said.

The officer involved in the shooting is white, Edwards is black and had no visible NYPD identification on him, sources said. It was unclear if Edwards identified himself.

"This is always a black cop's fear, that he'd be mistaken for a [suspect]," a source said.

His father couldn't fathom how such a fatal mistake could happen.

"If a police officer sees someone with a gun, you don't just fire without asking questions or trying to apprehend the person," said Ricardo Edwards, 72. "If the person was firing at a police officer, I understand."

"It's a horror for everyone involved. No one comes out unscathed," a police source said.

One dejected cop said Edwards "just became a new father. He took some personal time so he could take the baby to North Carolina to meet his folks."

Edwards' mother, Natalia Harding, said her son had just married his girlfriend, Danielle Glen, last month at City Hall. They have two kids - 11/2-year-old Xavier and 7-month-old Keanua.

"I'm hurt that they took my son. That's my baby they took from me. And all I got was his last hug and kiss when he went to work [tonight] and he said, 'Ma, I'll see you when I come home,' " Natalia Harding said between sobs Friday morning at her Brooklyn apartment.

NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Edwards, who had been on the force less than two years and worked out of a Manhattan housing unit, had left work about 10:30 p.m.

He was in street clothes as he walked toward his car parked about a block away on Second Ave. between E. 124th and E. 125th St., where he saw Miguel Goitia rummaging through the vehicle. The driver's side window was busted out.

Edwards grabbed Goitia, who managed to slip out of his sweater and escape Edwards' grip, Kelly said.

Gun drawn, Edwards gave chase.

At the same time, three plainclothes officers in an unmarked car saw Edwards running down the street. The car made a U-turn, and one of the officers, a white cop with more than four years on the job, got out and fired six shots - hitting Edwards twice, once in the left arm and once in the chest, Kelly said.

Edwards did not fire his weapon.

Maalik Lane, 20, who was walking nearby, said suddenly he heard shots.

"More than five, boom, boom, boom, boom. Then there were just a lot of police blocking the streets."

Mayor Bloomberg, at a press conference at Harlem Hospital, said he expressed his sorrow to Edwards' wife.

"Nothing that you can ever say will bring back the deceased. He was there protecting the rest of us. We will find out what happened," Bloomberg said. "This is a tragedy. We'll see what we can learn from it."

Cops discovered Edwards was one of them when rescue crews cut open his shirt to treat the bleeding and saw a police academy shirt. They then searched his pockets and found his shield, sources said.

Investigators said the anti-crime cops arrested the car-theft suspect Goitia.

Edwards' mother said her son's dream was to be a cop.

"Ever since he was a little kid, he wanted to be a police officer. Something I didn't want, but it was his choice and he loved what he was doing. He loved helping other people," Harding said, noting she always worried about his safety.

 

[88m3]

white cops kill black/ethnic cops all the time

 

[HideoKojima]

..... How the hell? They really thought they were regular black guys pretending to be cops. I would've quit that day, that shows you how racist some cops are. But people think its impossible.....

 

[tmonster]

Back in 2009 there was a black cop who was killed by a white cop when he mistaken him for a criminal. The brother just got off of duty and saw someone breaking into his car and he chased after him. Some white cops saw him running and shot him; the white officer was not convicted because the criminal who broke into the brothers car testified for the white cop.

White officer kills black cop after mistaking him for criminal

ALISON GENDAR, ERICA PEARSON, BARRY PADDOCK, LEO STANDORA
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS 05/29/2009 12:32 PM ET

http://m.nydailynews.com/news/crime...rookie-shot-pursuing-suspect-article-1.372647

KEIVOM/NEWS
Police respond to scene in East Harlem on Thursday night where off-duty cop Omar Edwards was fatally shot by NYPD while in pursuit of carjack thief.
An off-duty rookie cop chasing a suspected car thief in East Harlem with his gun drawn was shot and killed Thursday night when an officer mistook him for a criminal.

"Police! Stop! Drop it!" cops from the 25th Precinct shouted at Omar Edwards, 25.

As he started to turn toward him - the gun still in his hand - an officer opened fire, sources said.

The officer involved in the shooting is white, Edwards is black and had no visible NYPD identification on him, sources said. It was unclear if Edwards identified himself.

"This is always a black cop's fear, that he'd be mistaken for a [suspect]," a source said.

His father couldn't fathom how such a fatal mistake could happen.

"If a police officer sees someone with a gun, you don't just fire without asking questions or trying to apprehend the person," said Ricardo Edwards, 72. "If the person was firing at a police officer, I understand."

"It's a horror for everyone involved. No one comes out unscathed," a police source said.

One dejected cop said Edwards "just became a new father. He took some personal time so he could take the baby to North Carolina to meet his folks."

Edwards' mother, Natalia Harding, said her son had just married his girlfriend, Danielle Glen, last month at City Hall. They have two kids - 11/2-year-old Xavier and 7-month-old Keanua.

"I'm hurt that they took my son. That's my baby they took from me. And all I got was his last hug and kiss when he went to work [tonight] and he said, 'Ma, I'll see you when I come home,' " Natalia Harding said between sobs Friday morning at her Brooklyn apartment.

NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Edwards, who had been on the force less than two years and worked out of a Manhattan housing unit, had left work about 10:30 p.m.

He was in street clothes as he walked toward his car parked about a block away on Second Ave. between E. 124th and E. 125th St., where he saw Miguel Goitia rummaging through the vehicle. The driver's side window was busted out.

Edwards grabbed Goitia, who managed to slip out of his sweater and escape Edwards' grip, Kelly said.

Gun drawn, Edwards gave chase.

At the same time, three plainclothes officers in an unmarked car saw Edwards running down the street. The car made a U-turn, and one of the officers, a white cop with more than four years on the job, got out and fired six shots - hitting Edwards twice, once in the left arm and once in the chest, Kelly said.

Edwards did not fire his weapon.

Maalik Lane, 20, who was walking nearby, said suddenly he heard shots.

"More than five, boom, boom, boom, boom. Then there were just a lot of police blocking the streets."

Mayor Bloomberg, at a press conference at Harlem Hospital, said he expressed his sorrow to Edwards' wife.

"Nothing that you can ever say will bring back the deceased. He was there protecting the rest of us. We will find out what happened," Bloomberg said. "This is a tragedy. We'll see what we can learn from it."

Cops discovered Edwards was one of them when rescue crews cut open his shirt to treat the bleeding and saw a police academy shirt. They then searched his pockets and found his shield, sources said.

Investigators said the anti-crime cops arrested the car-theft suspect Goitia.

Edwards' mother said her son's dream was to be a cop.

"Ever since he was a little kid, he wanted to be a police officer. Something I didn't want, but it was his choice and he loved what he was doing. He loved helping other people," Harding said, noting she always worried about his safety.

 

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white cops kill black/ethnic cops all the time