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Anti Federalist
10-28-2011, 08:57 PM
Yeah, there's no innocent people in prison. :rolleyes:

Thumbnail: NYC cops hold woman for five days trying to get her to change her story and frame her friend.

The justification: a warrant for her arrest that "the computer" got wrong.

Do not call the cops.

Do not talk to the cops.

As much as humanly possible, have no contact with cops at all.




Five days, no charges: Stray bullet victim held 'captive' when cops don’t believe her story

BY John Marzulli
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Thursday, October 27th 2011, 4:00 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/27/2011-10-27_i_was_held_prisoner_for_five_days_at_a_brooklyn _police_station_after_getting_sho.html

A stray-bullet victim says she was held prisoner for five days at a Brooklyn police station because detectives didn't believe her story about the shooting, the Daily News has learned.

Takesha Griffin, 35, said she was handcuffed to a bench in the squad room or locked in a filthy holding cell at the 73rd Precinct stationhouse during a spirit-shattering stretch last month. Cops asked her repeatedly if she was ready to cough up the real story.

"They wanted me to lie," said Griffin, whose lawyer filed a notice of claim on Tuesday. "It was like 'The Twilight Zone.' "

During her lengthy confinement, Griffin said she urinated on herself when no one was available to escort her to the bathroom. She was also denied a sanitary napkin.

The single mother of a 9-year-old boy said she was given a McDonald's hamburger each day and ridiculed when she complained about the food. One cop sarcastically pointed out that she could order salmon or lasagna from a menu posted on the squad room wall.

"Who treats people this way?" Griffin wondered. "It's inhumane."

On her second day in the Brownsville stationhouse, cops continued to give her grief, she said.

"A police officer saw me still sitting there and said, 'Did your story change yet? I guess you like it here,' " she said.

The NYPD's chief spokesman, Paul Browne, did not respond to messages seeking comment. Arrestees are supposed to be brought before a judge within 24 hours.

Lawyer Sanford Rubenstein said Griffin was victimized twice - first as a crime victim and then by cops trying to coerce her into changing her story so the case could be closed.

"This is something that would happen in a fascist state, not in America," Rubenstein said.

(Ummm, where the fuck have you been, Sanford? - AF)

Griffin's alleged ordeal began Sept. 3 as she was getting out of a male friend's Ford pickup truck around 4 a.m. near her apartment in Brownsville.

She heard a "slap" and then felt a burning sensation on her right thigh where her tights appeared to be squeezed into a hole. Pulling the bunched-up fabric, she saw a bullet pop out, followed by spurting blood.

Griffin's friend drove her to Brookdale University Hospital. Hospital staff saw the wound and called the cops.

A computer check showed Griffin had failed to appear in court for a disorderly conduct summons in 2009 and a warrant had been issued. Griffin was handcuffed to the gurney, and after the wound was bandaged, taken to the 73rd Precinct stationhouse still wearing hospital scrubs.

She said detectives insisted she had been shot during a lovers' quarrel.

"They were trying to get me to say it was my friend who shot me," recalled Griffin, who is seeking $5 million from the city.

"He never had a gun," she said. "I told them he was gay; we had gone to a gay club the night before."

The friend offered to take a lie detector test and submit to a gunshot residue test on his hands, she said. He was released that morning; she was held.

Griffin's mother brought her fresh clothes, a turkey sandwich, a newspaper, soap and a toothbrush on Sept. 7.

Criminal Court was in session the entire weekend, but Griffin was not taken to Central Booking until the afternoon of Sept. 8.

Griffin insisted she answered the summons and it was supposed to be dismissed. She was right. There had been a clerical error.

Finally, she was free to go.

brushfire
10-28-2011, 09:09 PM
When is it going to occur to people that America is a fascist state?

specsaregood
10-28-2011, 09:17 PM
When is it going to occur to people that America is a fascist state?
it seems to be occurring to them, 1 victim at a time.

Anti Federalist
10-28-2011, 09:18 PM
When is it going to occur to people that America is a fascist state?

I think they already know it, accept it and welcome it.

Only a population of fools or drugged could come to any other conclusion.

And when the time comes, they will cheer the mass graves, and will happily fill stadiums to watch, well, people like us, get ripped apart in bloodsport "games".

Either way, we're fucked.

Pericles
10-28-2011, 09:53 PM
I think they already know it, accept it and welcome it.

Only a population of fools or drugged could come to any other conclusion.

And when the time comes, they will cheer the mass graves, and will happily fill stadiums to watch, well, people like us, get ripped apart in bloodsport "games".

Either way, we're fucked.

de Tocqueville saw it coming:

Custom has done even more than law. A proceeding is becoming more and more general in the United States which will, in the end, do away with the guarantees of representative government: it frequently happens that the voters, in electing a delegate, point out a certain line of conduct to him and impose upon him certain positive obligations that he is pledged to fulfill. With the exception of the tumult, this comes to the same thing as if the majority itself held its deliberations in the market-place.


Several particular circumstances combine to render the power of the majority in America not only preponderant, but irresistible. The moral authority of the majority is partly based upon the notion that there is more intelligence and wisdom in a number of men united than in a single individual, and that the number of the legislators is more important than their quality. The theory of equality is thus applied to the intellects of men; and human pride is thus assailed in its last retreat by a doctrine which the minority hesitate to admit, and to which they will but slowly assent. Like all other powers, and perhaps more than any other, the authority of the many requires the sanction of time in order to appear legitimate. At first it enforces obedience by constraint; and its laws are not respected until they have been long maintained.

The moral power of the majority is founded upon yet another principle, which is that the interests of the many are to be preferred to those of the few. It will readily be perceived that the respect here professed for the rights of the greater number must naturally increase or diminish according to the state of parties When a nation is divided into several great irreconcilable interests, the privilege of the majority is often overlooked, because it is intolerable to comply with its demands.

In the United States, political questions cannot be taken up in so general and absolute a manner; and all parties are willing to recognize the rights of the majority, because they all hope at some time to be able to exercise them to their own advantage. The majority in that country, therefore, exercise a prodigious actual authority, and a power of opinion which is nearly as great; no obstacles exist which can impede or even retard its progress, so as to make it heed the complaints of those whom it crushes upon its path. This state of things is harmful in itself and dangerous for the future.

Unlimited power is in itself a bad and dangerous thing. Human beings are not competent to exercise it with discretion. God alone can be omnipotent, because his wisdom and his justice are always equal to his power. There is no power on earth so worthy of honor in itself or clothed with rights so sacred that I would admit its uncontrolled and all-predominant authority. When I see that the right and the means of absolute command are conferred on any power whatever, be it called a people or a king, an aristocracy or a democracy, a monarchy or a republic, I say there is the germ of tyranny, and I seek to live elsewhere, under other laws.

I do not say that there is a frequent use of tyranny in America at the present day; but I maintain that there is no sure barrier against it, and that the causes which mitigate the government there are to be found in the circumstances and the manners of the country more than in its laws.

BattleFlag1776
10-28-2011, 10:55 PM
I’ve come to the conclusion that while the media touts NYC/NYPD as this muscular end all-be all beacon of what America represents just the opposite is true. The city is in fact nothing more than a Deputy Barney Fife with one bullet, out to solve the crime that was never committed due to its own hyped-up Napoleon complex.

CaptainAmerica
10-28-2011, 10:57 PM
HMM I wonder if the cops shot that bullet

HOLLYWOOD
10-28-2011, 11:36 PM
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Anti Federalist
10-29-2011, 12:22 AM
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New linky:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/days-charges-stray-bullet-victim-held-captive-cops-don-t-story-article-1.968163

phill4paul
10-29-2011, 12:46 AM
When I lived in rural Virginia I actually had the challenger to the Sheriff Office come to my house. Down a looong gravel road. He came down the road. Apologized for intruding and stated his position. I told him I appreciated the fact that he came to my house and continued to question him on many things. I voted for him in the Sheriff election. I've yet to have a enforcer in blue to ever ask my opinion.

KingRobbStark
10-29-2011, 12:59 AM
They are all scum. How can anyone choose a profession that helps enforce the injustices of the few? Because of the latter I have concluded that if you are police officer you are either inheretly evil or inheretly stupid.

anaconda
10-29-2011, 01:56 AM
When is it going to occur to people that America is a fascist state?

Perhaps never. They have been frogs in a pot of slowly simmering water, raised to the near boiling point.

anaconda
10-29-2011, 01:57 AM
Thanks for the OP post Anti-Federalist and keep up the good work.

anaconda
10-29-2011, 02:00 AM
Very glad she's suing.

I'm not quite clear why the cops would do this to her when they should have realized this story could come under full public scrutiny.