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Argument for Big Brother: More Bad Cops Caught on Camera
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 25, 2009
Modified Mar 25, 2009
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Today's Times trend piece on NYPD officers getting caught misbehaving on video is enough to make one nostalgic. Of course, no one could forget the famous cop-bike-bodyslam blockbuster from last July, truly the gold standard in NYPD abuse porn. But let's not let that high water mark diminish the oeuvre's other classics, like the "cop pauses beating to take phone call" surveillance video, or the lively Delancey Street baton beatdown, or the tragically fatal Tasering of the naked disturbed man. This stroll down bad-memory lane is occasioned by a new addition to the series: Detective Debra Eager was indicted Monday on three felony perjury charges after her testimony before a grand jury about a 2007 drug arrest was found to have "starkly contradicted" video surveillance. It's unclear exactly how the video differs from Eager's testimony, but the charges have something to do with "misremembering" just how the bust went down. However, we do know the end result for the drug suspects: felony and misdemeanor charges were quietly dropped last October!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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