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Cop Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Her Friend Into A Window
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John Del Signore
Published Apr 14, 2014
Modified Apr 14, 2014
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An off-duty NYPD sergeant was arrested before dawn on Sunday after reportedly throwing her friend into a Tribeca storefront window. According to the NYPD's terse official statement, Sergeant Tamara Beauzile, 43, was arrested at 4:40 a.m. in Manhattan and charged with Assault, Disorderly Conduct and Harassment. But "a source" gives the Post the dirt about a night out that went completely sideways:
“She was driving us all home. We were all drinking,” said one of Beauzile’s friends, who asked not to be identified. The ladies then started arguing over directions. “She wanted to take us one way, and we were saying we should go another way,” the pal recalled.
Then Beauzile, 43, a 21-year veteran of the department’s applicant-processing division, turned on a woman in the car, Samantha Douglas, shrieking, “Bitch, I know where I’m going!"
"She punched her. She hit her [in] the car,” recalled the friend, who was along for the wild ride. “She said don’t let me be a cop tonight. Let me be a friend tonight.’” Douglas, 38, tried to leave the cop’s vehicle and hop in a taxi, but was turned away by the cabby because she was bleeding profusely, the friend said.
When Douglas returned to Beauzile’s car to retrieve her purse, the cop jumped out and started beating her, the friend said. “She ran into her like a train with no brakes,” the friend said. “She just kept punching her.” Beauzile then picked up Douglas and threw her into the window of Canal Furniture on Broadway near Walker Street, shattering it and leaving a gaping hole. “She picked her up and threw her into the glass,” the friend said. “She was like a raging bull.”
Friends like these, huh, Gary? Read everything about the whole sodden mess here. Then recall a happier time when Beauzile coached girls' basketball and urged her players to "calm down."
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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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