NYPD cop allegedly steals $1,300 during stop-and-frisk

[Jazzy]

The Brooklyn District Attorney's office is investigating after an NYPD officer allegedly stole about $1,300 from a man and pepper sprayed him and his sister in an encounter captured on cell video.

The incident was first reported by the New York Daily News. The police department's Internal Affairs unit is also investigating, according to the NYPD.

The incident began in the early morning hours of Sept. 16 when Lamard Joye and his sister Lateefah Joye came across another man who they said was being "roughed up" by police in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood, lawyer Robert Marinelli told CBS News' Crimesider.

Marinelli represents the Joyes and the third man, Terrell Haskins. Marinelli said the Joyes yelled out, "Is this necessary?"

A friend began recording on his cell phone as an officer approached Lamard Joye. On the video, which doesn't picture Haskins, the officer is seen pushing Joye against a fence in an apparent stop-and-frisk before reaching into his pocket, allegedly taking about $1,300.

The officer then apparently uses pepper spray on Joye. His sister Lateefah Joye can be heard asking for the officer's badge number before the officer allegedly pepper sprays her as well.

Marinelli told Crimesider that Joye had a large amount of cash with him because it was his birthday and he was planning on celebrating with an evening out with his wife.

"It was unprovoked," Marinelli told Crimesider. "They [the officers] were in a bad mood and maybe they didn't want to be questioned. They robbed and maced him."

The officers had initially responded to the report of a man with a gun, an NYPD spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail to Crimesider.

"When officers arrived at the scene, they encountered numerous people at the location. As a result of the allegations, the matter is under investigation by the Internal Affairs Bureau and [Civilian Complaint Review Board.]"

Marinelli said he has turned over the video to the Brooklyn District Attorney's office, which is also investigating.

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What do you think will happen to this cop?

 

[Webster]

What do you think will happen to this cop?

Unless there's public pressure on the NYPD, they'll just do what they usually do - protect the Thin Blue Line and sweep it away as if nothing happened.

 

[Dee]

What do you think will happen to this cop?

Unless there's public pressure on the NYPD, they'll just do what they usually do - protect the Thin Blue Line and sweep it away as if nothing happened.

I'm assuming this is what will happen as well. Until someone with higher authority actually enforces policy and procedure, and takes this seriously, nothing will result of it and that is sad.

 

[Webster]

What do you think will happen to this cop?

Unless there's public pressure on the NYPD, they'll just do what they usually do - protect the Thin Blue Line and sweep it away as if nothing happened.

I'm assuming this is what will happen as well. Until someone with higher authority actually enforces policy and procedure, and takes this seriously, nothing will result of it and that is sad.

Its' a no-win situation for those in positions of higher authority, Dee...on the one hand, if they try to enforce the regs' - and laws - as written, they risk raising the ire of the rank-and-file officers who might begin to think they're being hung out to dry by the powers-that-be. On the other hand, if they don't enforce the rules, regs & laws as they're written, that can engender distrust between the police and the broader community and that can have bad repercussions all around.

 

[Dee]

What do you think will happen to this cop?

Unless there's public pressure on the NYPD, they'll just do what they usually do - protect the Thin Blue Line and sweep it away as if nothing happened.

I'm assuming this is what will happen as well. Until someone with higher authority actually enforces policy and procedure, and takes this seriously, nothing will result of it and that is sad.

Its' a no-win situation for those in positions of higher authority, Dee...on the one hand, if they try to enforce the regs' - and laws - as written, they risk raising the ire of the rank-and-file officers who might begin to think they're being hung out to dry by the powers-that-be. On the other hand, if they don't enforce the rules, regs & laws as they're written, that can engender distrust between the police and the broader community and that can have bad repercussions all around.

Oh, I totally agree. Yeah, this is a no-win situation because the system is so fucked and so influenced by corruption that it's unlikely to go much further.