NY Police Believe They Have License To Assault People
An ex-Playboy playmate stripped the city of a $1.2 million payout Tuesday after suing the cops for manhandling her.
Stephanie Adams a woman of 41 years old, won a $1.2 million dollars award for injuries she suffered in May 25, 2006 after Police attacked and assaulted her.
She said cops threw her to the ground at gunpoint after a crazy cab driver (Erik Darko) who called police and falsely told them that she “flashed vampire teeth” and was going to shoot him.
The crazy cab driver had his taxi license revoked after this incident had called bitch and slammed the door on her stomach.
The cab driver called police, and when they arrived, cops said, Adams refused their commands to get on her face.
She was wearing skintight jeans and a bare-midriff shirt, and that she immediately obeyed the cops commands and spread her arms wide to show she was unarmed.
Even though there was no way she could hide a goun on herself, Sgt. John Rajan decided to do a “controlled drop to the ground” (in other words to assault and subdue) .
He stupidly tells the jury “We didn’t know if she had a firearm,” but then he admitted that she “was wearing tight-fitting clothing, and there was no place to conceal a weapon.”
It seems it is routine for the NY Police sgt and other police to do “controlled drops” no matter the circumstances.
We all know police will continue to assault citizens and then just let the city deal with any of the consequences of paying out any faults found.
Police and their unions will do everything in their power to prevent being forced to be accountable to citizens and the community.
More details from the New York Daily News:
A Manhattan jury of four women and two men took 81/2 hours deliberating before tossing fistfuls of money at Miss November 1992, Stephanie Adams, 41, for the injuries she suffered in a 2006 scuffle with police.
The former Bunny’s tale was so compelling that jurors doled awarded her $385,000 more than her lawyer asked for.
Adams, the first openly lesbian Playmate, said cops threw her to the ground at gunpoint after a bizarre confrontation with a cabbie who falsely told them she “flashed vampire teeth” and was going to shoot him.
Adams got into it with the hack, Erik Darko, on Ninth Ave. after he refused to carry her clothing into her Chelsea apartment on May 25, 2006.
Darko, who had his taxi license yanked after the fracas, called her a “b—h” and slammed the door on her stomach.
The cabbie called police, and when they arrived, cops said, Adams refused their commands to get on her face.
She says she was wearing skintight jeans and a bare-midriff shirt, and that she immediately obeyed the cops’ commands and spread her arms wide to show she was unarmed.
Sgt. John Rajan told the jury he made a “controlled drop to the ground” to subdue the centerfold. “We didn’t know if she had a firearm,” he testified.
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