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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlack Police Officer Claims She Was Falsely Arrested by Two White Officers on Long Island
A black police officer claimed Thursday that she was improperly charged with resisting arrest by two white officers from her own department last week on Long Island.
The 19-year veteran of the Nassau County Police Department said she immediately identified herself as a fellow officer during an initial confrontation Nov. 29 with a uniformed officer while she was off-duty and shopping in West Hempstead. She said she was targeted because she is black.
"I have been wrongfully charged and falsely arrested, requiring me to defend against allegations that are based on prejudice coming from my own police force," Officer Dolores Sharpe said during a press conference at her attorney's Long Island office. She declined to take questions from reporters.
Sharpe's attorney claims the off-duty officer was shopping for weather stripping at a "dollar store" last Friday afternoon when a uniformed officer confronted her in a parking lot. Attorney Fred Brewington said the officer began verbally berating the woman, saying that where she parked had blocked his view of something he was watching for an undisclosed investigation.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Police-Officer-Dispute-Long-Island-Racial-Prejudice-Claim-Nassau-234622891.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand
The 19-year veteran of the Nassau County Police Department said she immediately identified herself as a fellow officer during an initial confrontation Nov. 29 with a uniformed officer while she was off-duty and shopping in West Hempstead. She said she was targeted because she is black.
"I have been wrongfully charged and falsely arrested, requiring me to defend against allegations that are based on prejudice coming from my own police force," Officer Dolores Sharpe said during a press conference at her attorney's Long Island office. She declined to take questions from reporters.
Sharpe's attorney claims the off-duty officer was shopping for weather stripping at a "dollar store" last Friday afternoon when a uniformed officer confronted her in a parking lot. Attorney Fred Brewington said the officer began verbally berating the woman, saying that where she parked had blocked his view of something he was watching for an undisclosed investigation.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Police-Officer-Dispute-Long-Island-Racial-Prejudice-Claim-Nassau-234622891.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand
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Black Police Officer Claims She Was Falsely Arrested by Two White Officers on Long Island (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Dec 2013
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Heather MC
(8,084 posts)1. Ok let's see how this gets handled
Many Americans automatically side with the police, they ignorantly believe the other person must have done something wrong, otherwise the police would have done anything.
So here you have an officer being harassed and arrested for the crime of shopping while black. Good thing Rosa Parks ended Racism
marsis
(301 posts)2. Note to Supreme (just ask them) Court
......never mind, you wouldn't get it.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)3. I guess she should arrest them!
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)4. Getting arrested for resisting arrest is Kafka-esque
to begin with, and in this case even worse. By your co-workers at the police department where you work? Holy shit.