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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:15 PM Aug 2013

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Correction Officer Charged With Setting Bed-Stuy Fire

NY1News

A city correction officer is under arrest, accused of setting the fire that ripped through a Brooklyn apartment building Thursday morning.

Yvette Randolph, 43, is charged with second degree arson.

Investigators believe Randolph set the fire to get back at her ex-boyfriend.

Sources tell us the man used to live in the building located at 375 Chauncey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/news/187990/correction-officer-charged-with-setting-bed-stuy-fire

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Correction Officer Charged With Setting Bed-Stuy Fire (Original Post) hrmjustin Aug 2013 OP

typical law enofrcement official! gopiscrap Aug 2013 #1

I hope not. hrmjustin Aug 2013 #2

Most cops, law enforcement, probation, corrections folk gopiscrap Aug 2013 #3

I will tell you that many of the bar fights in my neighborhood are FDNY versus NYPD. hrmjustin Aug 2013 #4

I am not surprised gopiscrap Aug 2013 #5

In a bar in Manhattan I was drinking with a cop who said he would not work in Bay Ridge Brooklyn hrmjustin Aug 2013 #6

That's sad but in my perverse twisted sense of humor gopiscrap Aug 2013 #7

Well it is a peaceful neighborhood but we do see cops gone wild stories in the news once in hrmjustin Aug 2013 #8

gopiscrap

(23,759 posts)

1. typical law enofrcement official!

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:38 PM

Aug 2013

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. I hope not.

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:39 PM

Aug 2013

The ones I met always were nicer.

Sad story.

gopiscrap

(23,759 posts)

3. Most cops, law enforcement, probation, corrections folk

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #2)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:42 PM

Aug 2013

I have met usually have an authority or paranoia complex going on which turns them into assholes!

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

4. I will tell you that many of the bar fights in my neighborhood are FDNY versus NYPD.

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #3)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:44 PM

Aug 2013

We have many that live in this part of Brooklyn and they do get in bar fights.

gopiscrap

(23,759 posts)

5. I am not surprised

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:46 PM

Aug 2013

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

6. In a bar in Manhattan I was drinking with a cop who said he would not work in Bay Ridge Brooklyn

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #5)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:48 PM

Aug 2013

because he would have to arrest too many cops in bar fights.

gopiscrap

(23,759 posts)

7. That's sad but in my perverse twisted sense of humor

Reply to hrmjustin (Reply #6)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:49 PM

Aug 2013

it also made me laugh!

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

8. Well it is a peaceful neighborhood but we do see cops gone wild stories in the news once in

Reply to gopiscrap (Reply #7)

Fri Aug 30, 2013, 02:52 PM

Aug 2013

awhile.

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