Posted on 06/03/2015 7:47:02 PM PDT by Half Vast Conspiracy
JERSEY CITY – A Jersey City police sergeant was accused of driving "highly intoxicated" in Robbinsville in January 2014, but was released without charges into the custody of Jersey City police and remains on the job.
The incident is documented in a dramatic video and multiple police reports obtained via a public-records request. The video, taken from the dashboard of one a Robbinsville police officer, shows one officer telling Sgt. Vincent Corso, the Jersey City cop, that he is too "f***** up" to drive, while just off camera there is an apparent struggle after the officers tell Corso they plan to confiscate his gun.
News of the traffic stop first surfaced two weeks ago when Robert Cowan, the former Jersey City police chief, cited the incident in a civil lawsuit he filed against the city, Mayor Steve Fulop and Public Safety Director James Shea.
Cowan alleges in his lawsuit that he ordered an internal affairs investigation into Corso's traffic stop over the objections of Fulop and Shea. The ex-police chief, whose allegations have been dubbed fiction by city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill, says Fulop tried to conceal the incident involving Corso, a local union official, because he wanted to curry favor with the union in advance of a possible gubernatorial run in 2017.
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He had hit a few mail boxes and couldn't explain why his windshield was smashed. He had an AR-15 visible on his back seat.
The local cops called his supervisor who took him home.
More: Off-camera about one minute later, the sounds of a physical altercation can be heard between the two officers and Corso. In their reports, Bruton and Borges say Corso initially told them he did not have a weapon on him, then recanted, and when they told him they had to seize the weapon, he struggled, attempting to pull away from them. At this point in the video, Corso can be heard saying, “Don’t do that. Don’t do that.”
Bruton then put Corso in a “compliance hold” with his right arm behind his back as the officers removed a Glock from his waistband, the reports say.
Some animals are more equal than others. Like the Kennedy royal critters.
Because that’s the way it is.
“The law is meant for you, not for me.” Louis Lerner—IRS
Walter Cronkite approves.
Brian Williams was there to interview the cop.
Steady, gradual Mexicanization of US LEO’s.
As often as I’ve seen him, he has the most sincere looking eyebrows on any man I’ve seen ... he looks soooo sorrowful.
Anyone who criticizes a cop must be a THUG!
(Loyal FReeper and talk radio listener)
There were so many times here, where a regular citizen could have been killed.
...would have been killed.
This is one of those crimes where this cop should have gotten a worse penalty than normal, he has probably been doing this for decades, and should have the book thrown at him, and with an extra penalty for being in the line of work of ruining other people’s lives for DWI, and while they were not wearing guns.
Most “law enforcement officers “ only arrest citizens and cover for each other. These despotic thugs are worse than most of the criminals they arrest.
I lived in Santa Barbara, California in the 1980’s.
One night, a drunk off duty Santa Barbara cop was driving drunk on highway 101 and yelling racial slurs at a carload of Asians.
When he was pulled over, the cops just took him home.
If it were you or I doing this, we’d be in the county jail for DWI and a possible hate crime. We’d be facing legal action, fines, jail time, increases in our insurance, etc.
But hey, if you’re a cop, you’re above the law.
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