COPS LOSE THE GROOVE
In Matter of Anthony W., a juvenile delinquency proceeding was brought against Anthony W. for allegedly running over a cop with an ATV.
Officers Kevin O'Connor and Anthony Mills were on patrol when they saw three ATVs -- one "yellow" and two "blue and black" -- emerge from the woods. A chase ensued and the officers were separated.
O'Connor stepped into the path of a yellow ATV and directed the driver to stop. However, the vehicle accelerated, hit O'Connor head-on, tossed him into the air and dragged him until the ATV's back tire ran over his arm. (O'Connor observed that the ATV had "left grooved tire track marks.")
The Suffolk County Family Court found that, had he been an adult, Anthony would have been guilty of "leaving the scene of an accident involving an all-terrain vehicle," and placed him on probation for 12 months. When the kid appealed, the Appellate Division, Second Department, found the lower court's determination was based on "legally insufficient evidence" and "contrary to the weight of the evidence."
Apparently, the only thing connecting Anthony to the crime was his yellow ATV. Neither O'Connor nor Mills could identify the driver and the two witnesses who regularly rode with Anthony couldn't recall if they had been riding their ATVs on the particular date in question. Furthermore, the witnesses owned "white and red" ATVs rather than "blue and black," (as the officers had originally described) and, while one of the kids claimed that a man in "regular" clothes "jumped at" the riders, both O'Connor and Mills were wearing police uniforms.
In light of the many contradictions, the existence of alibi witnesses, and, the fact that the yellow ATV had been equipped with "knobbed or 'holeshot' tires," the AD2 concluded the juvenile delinquent adjudication had to be rescinded.
Don't know about you, but we're tired!
To download a copy of the Appellate Division's decision, please use this link: Matter of Anthony W.
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A boneheaded setup. Only Family Court would have bought the ridiculous story. Luckily, this kid's parents got him a good lawyer.
Posted by: Gines Pasamonte | August 5, 2008 9:49 AM
Are you an excon, Passamontte? All you posts are filled with hatred for police.
We risk our lives for punks like you, and for what? Stupid [DELETED] like this, thats what.
Posted by: XCop | August 5, 2008 12:33 PM
No -- stint with IRS CI.
If you're really an ex-cop, you should be the first to figure out what's going on in this case and disapprove. Cases like this only make law enforcement look bad.
Posted by: Gines Pasamonte | August 5, 2008 3:10 PM
The way I see it, you don't [DELETED] with officers. Disrepect one of us and you disappear.
Posted by: Xcop | August 5, 2008 5:22 PM
Hey Copper, leave my Ginesy alone.
The way I see it, the only good cop is [BALANCE OF COMMENT DELETED].
Posted by: ALesbo | August 5, 2008 6:47 PM
Wrong -- fantasy flatfoot wannabe -- it is law enforcement's obligation not to disrespect citizens. Luckily, most people with your sociopathic tendencies are psychiatrically screened out before they make it to the police academy.
Posted by: Gines Pasamonte | August 5, 2008 7:53 PM
Xcop? Sounds more like XStasi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
Posted by: Cide Hamete Benengeli | August 5, 2008 9:52 PM
Fantasy? Look in the mirror. Your no attorney. CI was a negative.
So who's kidding who?
Posted by: Xcop | August 5, 2008 11:14 PM
Dearest Ginesy, you OK?
I thought you were more into this, cutiepie:
http://www.youtube.com/v/GdNh9f2Wwm0&hl=en&fs=1
Uncover the gold!
Your little weasel
Posted by: ALesbo | August 5, 2008 11:43 PM
Totally on the money - girlfriend!
I love Tuco!
He is the man!
Role model since childhood!
Posted by: Gines Pasamonte | August 6, 2008 9:15 AM
Xcop,
My colleagues and I are glad to know that the police in your country devote much of their time running identity checks on minor characters from 17th century Spanish novels who insult their manliness.
We look forward to a profitable summer vacation here in New York.
Posted by: Arsene Lupin IV | August 6, 2008 2:13 PM
"CI was a negative" -- please.
Who loves ya baby!
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/827359/who_loves_ya_baby_by_telly_savalas/
Posted by: Evelyn Tremble | August 6, 2008 2:48 PM
Book 'em Danno!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w&feature=related
Posted by: Steve McGarrett | August 6, 2008 7:11 PM
Mr. "McGarrett" knows full well the television program he links to is about the suprression and enslavement of the native peoples.
People with a conscious wont have anything to do with that show.
Posted by: H50 | August 6, 2008 9:41 PM
Telly Savalas a/k/a "The Golden Greek" is a God!
Witnesseth, baby: http://www.youtube.com/v/GWPgJONXc9A&hl=en&fs=1
Posted by: Stavros | August 7, 2008 12:37 AM
You're onto something H50. Now I understand it. Every Mafia movie ever made is a psycho-visual manifestation of the 24 century-long dialectical struggle of the Sicilian peoples to overcome successive waves of suppression and enslavement by Greeks, Etruscans, Romans, Lombards, Saracens, Byzantines, Normans, Spanish, the Holy Roman Empire, Spanish, French, Spanish, Neapolitans, French, Neapolitans, Garibaldians, Italo-Royalists, Impressionists, Italo-Fascists, Nazis, Anglo-Americans, Italo-Republicans and low-tipping Northern European Tourists. While you're at it, you can throw in Papal meddling in just about any of the above after the Romans.
Posted by: Cide Hamete Benengeli | August 7, 2008 8:12 AM
You forgot the Vandals and the Goths.
Posted by: Gines Pasamonte | August 7, 2008 1:01 PM
Scilians? What of our brothers and sisters of color?
This is no joke.
Posted by: H50 | August 7, 2008 2:29 PM
Dude,
When was the last time an army came to your neighborhood, blew it up, murdered a couple of your family members for the hell of it, took the neighbor's daughters as concubines, and made you go live in caves and eat tree bark for six months until they were chased out? We have living relatives who experienced this.
You know what?
They got over it.
We refuse to be victims!
We joke because we are alive and love every second of it!
Es mejor morir de pie que vivir un siglo de rodillas.
-- E. Zapata
Posted by: Gines Pasamonte | August 7, 2008 5:22 PM