Posted on 08/28/2010 6:53:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An NYPD cop whose wife called 911 for help against a gang of thugs says he was brutally beaten by baton-wielding fellow officers who stormed his Queens home.
Larry Jackson suffered a broken right hand and multiple bruises from kicks and billy-club blows he said he got from the men in blue called to his home when a gunman menaced guests at his daughter's birthday party.
"To get my butt beat like that was unnecessary," said the six-year veteran assigned to the 110th Precinct. "We called the police, and this is what happened to me."
"I'm shocked, angry and disappointed," said the 6-foot-3, 300-pound Jackson.
Prosecutors and the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau are probing his claims.
His hand in a cast, he met with the Daily News on Wednesday and lifted his shirt to show the scars from Sunday's early morning confrontation. Jackson, who is black, said the excessive force by the cops, who were white, might have been racially motivated.
"They didn't treat me like a house-owner calling for help," he said. "Everyone who lives in the 113th Precinct is not a perp."
Investigators from IAB took a DNA sample from Jackson on Wednesday and told his lawyer, Eric Sanders, it was for testing against the cops' batons, which have been confiscated.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Jackson "was injured as a result of a dispute at the party." A spokeswoman did not return a call for further comment.
Jackson's wife, Charlene, made a 911 call around 1:15 a.m. Sunday as her unarmed husband faced down thugs armed with a gun and bats who showed up as partygoers started leaving his home in Rochdale.
"I told the 911 operator it's my daughter's 21st birthday and my husband is a police officer and there's a young man with a gun," she said.
"Who do we call now?" said Charlene Jackson, a city bus driver. "It's very hurtful to know you can't trust the police officers in your neighborhood. I feel like the 113th Precinct is our enemy."
Larry Jackson, wearing an apron with the slogan, "I'm the chef and I'm awesome," said he did not identify himself to the street thugs as a cop - but was able to convince them to leave.
They were slinking off when the first patrol car from the 113th Precinct roared up and a sergeant got out. Charlene Jackson said she tried to tell the sergeant what happened when her niece yelled from the house that there was a fight inside.
The sergeant's driver ran inside and struck a friend of the family with his baton, the Jacksons said.
The sergeant then pushed Larry Jackson with his baton, they said, and when Jackson grabbed the sergeant, another cop began choking him from behind.
Jackson was knocked down and fell on his 82-year-old mother-in-law who briefly lost consciousness, he said.
"I'm covering my face and getting hit everywhere," he said. "Then somebody pepper sprayed me."
The couple said cops hit at least six family members and friends with batons. Their stepson, a cousin and a nephew were charged with disorderly conduct. Larry Jackson's gun and badge were taken and he was placed on modified duty.
"What's most disturbing is there were supervisors on the scnee who did nothing," said Sanders of the Law Firm of Jeffrey Goldberg in Lake Success.
Weird an elaborate way to try and kill the mother in law....but hey. If it works ......:o)
INDEED.
Yes.
Thanks for posting some rationality on this largely irrational thread.
You go “grabbing” a cop and you’re real lucky if you survive the experience with only a few bruises. Cops are trained, and rightly so, to react with overwhelming force to physical resistance as soon as it starts and before it gets a chance to escalate.
I am especially amused by the news stories about cops beating (or shooting) a cop (retarded/mentally ill person off his meds, juvenile, etc.). The subtext of the story is that the cops should have “known” the person was not a real threat because he was a member of one of the groups listed.
Two assumption are implicit here. People who are members of one of these “protected” groups are instantly and accurately identifiable as such. Members of these groups are by definition not a potential threat.
The third and final implicit assumption is that it’s ok to beat the snot out of anyone not a member of a protected group.
Code Orange for Cop haters? I like it, there sure is a lot of Code Orange on Free Republic.
OK, so how many times have they not listened to reason by taking you to jail?
Cops have to realize they are not safe from the abuse of an out of control police force, either. Their kids are not safe. Their wives are not safe... All of us are endangered when the constitutional constraints on the State are set aside for brute power of those in authority. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I hope legal and police reform is coming along quickly.
You pick the personal examples of relatives who you tolerate as criminal or the cop bar which you never reported to the state cops or internal affairs or even the well known example of Drew Peterson, and therefore believe that is the example of all 800,000. You ‘know’ what the real story is when in truth you don't.
That's the point.
For example, a Code Pink ‘knows’ that there are over 538,000 people in the US Army and every one is a raping murderer. How do they know? In 2006, 5 soldiers in Iraq raped a girl and then killed her and her family and covered it up as an insurgent attack. Therefore all military people are animals. They are all rapists. They are all murderers. Try and tell a Code Pink different, and they will pull out the same reasoning you did here. You will never reach them.
That's why the points on the Code Orange application. You don't condone the actions of criminal or unprofessional police, you investigate it and punish appropriately.
That's the rational approach. That's the conservative approach.
If in 2004 a third of your PD was in court for criminal action, then an honest mind would see that someone investigated them and arrested them and charged them. That meant that corruption was getting addressed. It reinforces my statements and diminishes yours.
I doubt we will ever talk about it because you will never want to hold a fair and honest opinion that contradicts your prejudice.
Amen....
IN MY AREA INTERNAL AFFAIR COMPLAINTS ARE HANDLED BY THE OFFICERS IMMEDIATE SUPERIOR!!!! ARE YOU REALLY EXPECTING ANYTHING TO BE FOUND? I'VE BEEN DOWN THAT ROAD.
I can tell you much more but I am just a single "Joe Average" that has his eyes open and knows the way things work.
Let me know how things work out for you in Fantasyland.
The county police arrested approx 60 drug dealers at 2 locations , one location was in my town directly across from a grade school (Wheatley Elementary in Apopka, FL ,,, look up the news coverage), the drug dealers ratted out the local pd that was protecting them ,, it made it to the papers and couldn't be fully ignored ... most of them got plead down to something minor , moved and are back in law enforcement .. maybe in your town.
IT'S SO AMUSING TO SEE POSTINGS FROM SOMEONE THAT TRULY BELIEVES ... YOU'RE A TRUE BLUE BELIEVER ...
you’re apparently too hysterical to follow the thread,
accusing all who have had bad experiences with law enforcement simply due to utilising the 911 system during a real emergency of being disrespectful low lifes.
you truly seem overwrought.
“hysterical”, “overwrought”
It’s called projection.
Thereby providing proof of my post. You will never be able to hold a rational discussion on the topic. Nothing will ever be enough. You may be amused by a “true believer” but the “true believer” pities you for your inability to think.
“Somehow, I doubt this was a high society social gathering.”
So that makes the beatings by the cops ok? So what if you are next to experience ‘law and order’ of this nature?
I don’t throw lowlife parties.
I don’t throw low life parties and we got raided while entertaining four families (Moms, Dads, kids, two cats and one dog) over a noise complaint. The cops were harassing the four teens who were swimming in our pool. The adults came running out when we heard angry yelling. The cops came right into our yard and were barking at our kids. It was before l0:00 pm. They were abrasive and confrontational - totally unprofessional. The kids were scared half to death. Although the parents were furious, we managed to get them the hell off our property before they caused a crime.
Our town cut the police department budget by 2/3’s that year. Apparently we weren’t the only ones in our sleepy town throwing “wild” parties. Who the heck needs that!
What happened to the Blue Code of Silence?
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