Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/14/drunk-nypd-cop-shouted-racial.html
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allegedly breaking into a Nashville home and drunkenly terrorizing its occupants, threatening youngsters and shouting racial slurs
A mistake anyone could make.
In Tennessee, this is considered by many an acceptably standard greeting.
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White newscaster Danielle Leigh: āā¦one of those mistakesā¦ā
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Remember when people were held accountable for the crimes they commit while intoxicated? Well thatās still the case, unless youāre a white off duty cop.
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āI apologize for breaking into these folksā house and denigrating them with vile racial slurs. Those slurs were intended for the owners of the AirBNB rental but I was simply in the wrong house.ā
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Charges have yet to be filed but a Nashville police spokesperson said the officer could face misdemeanor charges for aggravated trespassing.
Call me crazy, but Iām willing to bet that a black dude who isnāt a cop would get more than āmaybe, possibly, a misdemeanor chargeā if he broke into a white guyās house in Nashville and threatened him. Well, besides ādeadā, I mean.
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Talk about your off the cuff excuses. What? did he spend a whole second coming up with that one?
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Well. he was drunkā¦seeā¦so that makes it ok. We all know that being drunk changes your entire personality. Its like you become a Bizzarro version of yourself! /s
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I mean, who hasnāt gotten drunk, broken into somebodyās house, threatened them and yelled obscenities??
Itās just one of those things, amirite? Like finding extra cash in oneās wallet after a bust, or helping a black dude up after he falls down the stairs at the station; itās too difficult for him to do it himself with all those shackles on!
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New Yorkās finest, asshole.
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But of course he had ābuzzed blonde hair and blue eyesā. Quintessential stupid white people going off.
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Apropos of Tennessee greetings; I believe that itās a stand-your-ground jurisdiction.
Iāmā¦just guessingā¦that team Law And Order would not have been turning out to celebrate the result, Because Colorblind Reasons; but our āgentlemanā is pretty lucky that the response to
āTry to shoot me, Iāll break every bone in your F****** neck. You F****** N******.ā
was not āChallenge accepted.ā
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Cut him some slack. Itās not like working for the NYPD gives you a lot of practice with needing excuses for your abusive conduct; so heās probably quite unfamiliar with the process.
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The invadees probably knew that the fate of black people shooting a white man, esp a white cop, is generally not good. Drunk, invaded our home, shouted racist threats. Reverse the races, and it is a classic āstand your groundā case. In this case, no. Just no.
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iām surprised he didnāt claim that sacha baron cohen tricked him into doing and saying those things.
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Whew, for a minute I thought it was just me. Me and Officer Friendly here.
He iced the cake with the racial slurs, though. That was the lagniappe on his drunken berzerk.
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a classic example of why STR Type 2 rentals in a R-1B-zoned neighborhood are a bad idea.
i wonder if the property owner lost the license for this property. what i hear from the business people turning residential neighborhoods into commercial areas is that str type 2 properties are much more highly regulated and all it takes is a complaint or two for the now-rezoned property to be derezoned.
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In Texas it would be a castle doctrine defense. I imagine Tennessee has something similar. (Edit: wikipedia is silent on Tennessee.) Just remember to drag the bloody corpse inside.
What ever happened to just getting drunk and leaving an ex sobbing voice mails while eating a tub of ice cream?
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This piece of shit hasnāt even been taken off duty.
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