This is more than just one bad apple, the whole tree is rotten.
The NYPD is one of the worst gangs in America so you can’t be surprised by this.
I am just surprised they got caught.
Three NYPD officers were arrested Tuesday on federal corruption charges, including an “unabashedly racist” cop who bragged about menacing Black people and expressed interest in the Ku Klux Klan, according to prosecutors.
The indictment details a series of escalating criminal behavior by Robert Smith, a longtime officer in eastern Queens who left the department last March. Beginning in 2016, the filing states, Smith, 44, and his partner Robert Hassett, 36, used their police powers to steer vehicles damaged in crashes to a specific towing company, in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash bribes.
As the corruption in the 105th continued, Smith was offering his services to a group of men he believed to be drug dealers, according to feds.
Throughout the course of the investigation, prosecutors said, Smith also bragged about wielding power over Black individuals, while making glowing references to the KKK.
“Bro I point my gun out the window now at n—ers and watch their reaction and drive away. Hilarious,” he allegedly wrote in one text message. In another message, shortly after his retirement, he allegedly boasted, “Now the real [S]mith will shine. I even shaved my head. Klan.”
Until the police system is abolished and rebuilt this will continue to happen.
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