Two NYPD Officers Accused Of Raping Teen - Charges Have Been Dropped

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Rape charges were dropped Wednesday against the two former New York Police Department officers accused of assaulting an 18-year-old woman in the back of a police van.

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office in a statement cited “serious credibility issues” in its case regarding Anna Chambers, who told investigators and BuzzFeed News that she and friends were confronted in September 2017 by two officers for alleged marijuana possession. Her friends were let go, and Chambers said she was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police van, where the officers took turns raping her.

Surveillance video showed the officers later dropping Chambers off, and a rape kit found semen matching the DNA of detectives Eddie Martins and Richard Hall. The officers resigned from the NYPD, and in October 2017, they were charged with 43 crimes, including rape and kidnapping.

Prosecutors in Brooklyn on Wednesday said they believe that sexual conduct between an officer and a person in custody should be a crime. “However, that was not the law at the time of the incident,” the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/anna-chambers-nypd-rape-charges-officers-dropped

[StevieM]

1. This is so preposterous.

And, of course, the officers' lawyer complained that there was no basis for having brought charges in the first place. It reminds me of George Zimmerman claiming that is was outrageous that his client was ever even arrested and charged.

[USALiberal]

2. What a shock, Cops not being charged with a crime. nt