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Video: Cop Hopes His Nightstick "Will Get A Workout Tonight"
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John Del Signore
Published Oct 5, 2011
Modified Oct 6, 2011
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At some point tonight, a couple of bored cops were hanging around in the Financial District, killing time setting up barricades on some B.S. detail. Oh well, at least there's the overtime. And the chance that maybe later they'll get to crack some skulls.
At press time, it was unclear if this officer got the chance to, as he put it, let his "little nightstick get a workout tonight, hopefully." (But one of his superiors definitely got in a few good reps!) Of course, the cop seen here was surely just kidding around—it's inconceivable that a policeman would ever derive any twisted pleasure from beating up protesters. Can't you take a joke? THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL YOU LAUGH HARDER.
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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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