On February 17, 2007, an intoxicated off-duty Chicago police officer, Anthony "Tony" Abbate walked behind the bar of Jesse's Shortstop Inn and pummeled, punched and stomped 125-pound bartender Karolina Obrycka. Her "crime" was to refuse serving any more liquor to the burly Abbate because he was too drunk.
That unprovoked beating by Abbate led to a precedent-setting finding this November by a federal court jury in Chicago that the city, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and Tony Abbate had engaged in a "code of silence" to try and minimize the incident, protect Abbate and prevent justice from being served to Obrycka.
As a local ABC News reporter concluded in February of this year, after US District Judge Amy St. Eve ruled that there was enough evidence and grounds for a trial to proceed, that the case could – and ultimately did - expose "the blue curtain, an understanding between police officers that they should cover for each other unconditionally and that testimony against a fellow cop amounts to a betrayal of their fellow bond. It is the underbelly of a police subculture that is rarely exposed to this day."
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This will get even worse in our now Socialistic Society.
ReplyDeleteI suppose THIS answers the question that no cop --- not a single one -- will, or can answer ---What did you do when you saw a another cop commit a crime? Answer? Helped them and laughed about how easy it is to beat up someone in handcuffs, especially when it was 5 against one. THESE are the people who claim to protect and serve?? Ask the bartender (or thousands of OTHER citizens) how well SHE has been "served". Or any of the 700,000 (not a misprint) New Yorkers who, while doing nothing other than walking down a public street, were forced to submit to a search (or an ace-whipping and a night in jail). Innocence? HA!! That hasn't been a consideration for a long time....
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