You Won’t See This on “Cops” 0
If I had been beaten and robbed, I might not be holding my teacup with my pinkie out either.
When did cops become Miss Manners?
Camden Detective Maurice Gibson, who alleges that Kimberly Halpin made racial slurs in describing her assailants, decided that she should be handcuffed, arrested, and jailed.
Their he-said, she-said trial landed before U.S. District Judge Renee Bumb this week. And a jury of five women and three men unanimously decided yesterday that the detective fabricated information to justify the June 19, 2004, arrest.
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Gibson, who is African American and has been a police officer for 16 years, said he tried to take Halpin’s report, but she cried too much, was irate, cursed, and then twice used the “N-word” in describing the two assailants who took her backpack, purse, car keys, money, and cell phone.
So she got slapped with a disorderly conduct charge for crying, being angry, and forgetting her manners.
I’ve known and worked with a lot if cops. Almost all of them were decent persons who, underneath the locker room joking, took their responsibilities seriously.
Some were not.
And some were psychologically brutalized by the job. Those had the emptiest eyes I have ever seen.
None of them had such thin skins as today’s cops seem to have.
