"I fried another n*****" said NYPD cop, "no big deal"

[Liberal_in_LA]

NYPD Cop Taped Making Racial Slur About Black Man After Stop-and-Frisk

A New York City Police officer has been charged with a federal civil rights violation after prosecutors said he used a racial slur while bragging that he had falsely charged a black man with resisting arrest. The man was detained last spring in Staten Island as part of the department’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy.

“I fried another nigger,” Officer Michael Daragjati, who’s been with the NYPD for eight years, said in a conversation with a friend after his phone was tapped. “Another nigger fried, no big deal.”

Federal prosecutors tapped Daragjati’s cell phone during an investigation for an unrelated insurance fraud case when investigators heard him bragging to a female friend about falsely charging a man with resisting arrest.

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/10/nypd_cop_taped_making_racial_slurs_about_black_man_he_stopped_and_frisked_falsely_arrested.html

[MineralMan]

1. I guess the policeman isn't always your friend, eh?

Kinda depends on some stuff, I suppose...

[phantom power]

3. "existing while black"

:(

[dtexdem]

10. Oh my, Officer Friendly! What happened to you?

;-)

[MineralMan]

19. He turned into Officer Krupke, I think.

Gee, Officer Krupke...Krup You!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq28qCklEHc

[midnight]

2. Really... Falsely charging someone with a crime?

[tk2kewl]

5. are you being sarcastic or truly expressing shock?

there was another article here last week that makes this seem mild. the cops where creating false felony drug charges to meet drug arrest quotas and getting paid off by their superiors with extra OT.

[tularetom]

4. "Daragjati"? That don't sound like no American name

He oughta just go back where he came from. We don't need his kind in this country.

[MrDiaz]

6. this cop should be fired

immediatly... But you basing his view on his name and origin, and telling him to go back where he came from sounds alot like repukes telling muslims to go back where they came from. No doubt this guy should be fired because his motives are obviously in a different dark place, but stereotyping is the ways of our enemies not us.

[tularetom]

8. Sometimes it isn't necessary to add the little "sarcasm" thingy

I thought this would have been one of those times.

[Solomon]

7. of course skin color has absolutely nothing to do

with it.

[LynneSin]

9. I have a new quote that police offer should learn...

"Would you like fries with that order?"

That's about all he should be qualified to do.

[sce56]

13. A person like that could not be trusted to serve me food!

Not that I believe McDonalds is anything other than a Food Like Substance. There is a saying "Don't piss of the cook, He could spit in your food!" That is why I would not trust a piece of shit like that to serve me!

[DirkGently]

11. Jesus. This is why "stop & frisk" is NOT no big deal. It's a 1/2 step from "arrest randomly."

[backscatter712]

12. Where's my winnings?

[Initech]

14. Racist douche cop investigated for profiling - no big deal.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. His use of "another" means all his prior arrests should be examined.

[Initech]

16. I don't know how NYPD works - do they conduct all investigations internally?

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. I hope not

[Uncle Joe]

18. I agree.

[valerief]

17. More of that "American Exceptionalism" Fox News & pols always talk about. nt

[Iggo]

20. Yay, Cops!

They're the best!

[lebkuchen]

21. It amazes me that NY cops don't have more respect for themselves

This is right out of SERPICO, and how long ago was that? Does the NYPD not believe in evolution?

[Tsiyu]

22. NYPD is sure churning out the losers

It's like they're all in a contest:

"A free trip to Alcatraz and a year's worth of Rice-A-Roni to the NYPD cop who is the worst criminal of the year. Contest ends soon, so get out there and be an unlawful enema-bag in your badge, and you might WIN!"

[Bake]

24. NYPD: They're NOT the heroes we thought they were post-9/11

Well, SOME people thought they were heroes.

Bake

[1620rock]

25. Asshole pigs, and how can we fight this abuse of power?

[tavalon]

31. How?

It's happening right now. We are going all Ghandi on their asses. It's slow, but we will win. We do not meet violence with violence and the violent are highlighted and removed. Lather, rinse, repeat.

[Dawson Leery]

27. Many of us never saw the NYPD as being "heros".

Ask Tony Serpico about the NYPD.

[Bake]

32. You know what I'm talking about though

The big post-9/11 orgasm honoring NYPD.

To quote Sgt. Thomas, "There is no honor in this."

Bake

[Dawson Leery]

40. Certainly those honors were never earned.

[NNN0LHI]

34. Frank Serpico

[Fire Walk With Me]

26. Major asshole.

[gateley]

28. Sick to my stomach. I hope the guy he arrested can sue him/NYPD

big time for false "frying".

[lonestarnot]

29. If he finds out, I imagine that he will! I wonder if they have a duty to bring it to his attention.

[tavalon]

30. Why are there so many more sociopaths in police forces?

[Bake]

33. Authority/power junkies.

Some people join the PD just so they can bust some heads, carry a gun, and feel like big men.** There needs to be a way to weed those fuckers out at the beginning.

**I knew a guy years ago who tried for years to get on with the PD for that very reason. He was dumber than a stump. Just wanted to bust heads, thought he was a bad-ass.

Bake

[Donnachaidh]

35. sad to say, but Staten Island is and always has been a hotbed for racism

Same borough where a kid was (IIRC) beaten to within an inch of his life after Obama was elected by a bunch of white thugs from Rosebank.

This doesn't surprise me -- what surprises me is the Feds going after him at all. I hope this is the first in a long line of arrests against these animals.

[Dawson Leery]

39. Staten Island is very conservative.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

36. New York.

may the South Bashers on here please take note.

[reggie the dog]

38. chicago and new york are more racist than atlanta and miami

because up north we didnt have official segregation, we only had de facto segregation (which we still have) so we just point and say "racists live in the south" and have never done an introspection about racism.

[reggie the dog]

37. they did the same shit to white kids where i grew up but only certain ones

white kids wearing IOU sweaters, or later Abercrobie type shit were never stopped,
if you were on a skateboard or bmx bike and had long hair or dressed grunge or punk they stopped and searched all the time, would rub your balls and dick looking for drugs and make fun of you saying you had a small dick (i should hope my 12 year old dick was small in an older mans hand....)

we actually started to smoke weed after being searched for weed dozens of times..... they would stop us at night, during the day, and we always fit the description of someone who had just done some crime (bullshit)

we learned to run from the cops and in all the times i ran on foot or bicycle i was never caught or shot, i got away without being mollested by doing this dozens of times

then once i was 16 and in a car they could not see my clothes and just my white face so i no longer had problems