Three in elite NYPD anti-gun unit accused of treating black suspects like 'animals'

[MrScorpio]

BY JOHN MARZULLI / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Monday, April 16, 2012, 6:00 AM

Top supervisors of an elite NYPD anti-gun unit allegedly handled white suspects with kid gloves while treating blacks like “animals” deserving of a bullet to the head, the Daily News has learned.

The explosive charges appear in sworn depositions from three members of the firearms suppression unit: two current NYPD detectives and a retired first-grade detective.

Their testimony, part of a federal discrimination lawsuit, details how Capt. James Coan and Lt. Daniel Davin created a hostile environment for both their black detectives and suspected minority-group gun traffickers, said the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Eric Sanders.

Davin used the N-word to address black suspects, while Coan considered the unit’s minority-group targets almost subhuman, the depositions indicate.

“Capt. Coan would tell the field team . . . ‘They are f-----g animals. You make sure if you have to shoot, you shoot them in the head. That way there’s one story,’ ” said the retired detective.



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[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Just part of Bloomberg's army

[appal_jack]

5. Inspiring, eh?

These 'police' are among the tiny minority of New Yorkers who legally possess and carry firearms in the city.

Worse yet, there are more than a few deluded DU'ers who support disarming the rest of America a-la-Bloomberg's desires.

No thanks Bloomie; you can keep your restrictive laws. Rather than seek to impose its policies on the rest of the nation, NYC should clean house in its PD, getting rid of racism and other unconstitutional tendencies.

-app

[Dawson Leery]

2. "Par for the course: for the NYPD.

[pipoman]

3. Thank dog their the only ones who can legally carry guns in NYC..

[X_Digger]

4. Fuck the NYPD and their authoritarian crap..

http://www.nyclu.org/issues/racial-justice/stop-and-frisk-practices

In 2011, 685,724 New Yorkers were stopped by the police.
605,328 were totally innocent (88 percent).
350,743 were black (53 percent).
223,740 were Latino (34 percent).
61,805 were white (9 percent).
341,581 were aged 14-24 (51 percent).

http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-03-07/news/the-nypd-tapes-confirmed/

For more than two years, Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded every roll call at the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn and captured his superiors urging police officers to do two things in order to manipulate the "stats" that the department is under pressure to produce: Officers were told to arrest people who were doing little more than standing on the street, but they were also encouraged to disregard actual victims of serious crimes who wanted to file reports.

Arresting bystanders made it look like the department was efficient, while artificially reducing the amount of serious crime made the commander look good.

[Permanut]

6. I'm guessing Ron Paul would approve. n/t