Woman buying pot from NYC deli maced, dragged by hair, kicked in head by cashier who mistook her for trans

News@lemmy.world – 833 points – 12 months ago

A Staten Island woman buying pot from a local deli got into a misunderstanding with the cashier — who ended up macing her, dragging her outside by her hair, kicking her in the head and mistakenly calling her trans.

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When she called 911 after getting home, cops showed up but she was told she needed to go back to the scene, which is in a different precinct from her home, and call 911 from there.

Cops will move heaven and earth to not prosecute the criminals they like. Especially corrupt racist-ass NYPD.

"Brown, a former NYPD captain, noted police are obligated to take a report no matter where the crime occurred and that forcing crime victims to return to where they were attacked is traumatizing. The NYPD said Adams told the 911 dispatcher she would go to the scene, suggesting she voluntarily offered to do so."

"Regardless, when Adams went back to the grocery and called for police from there, it took officers four hours to show up, she said. The officers, she said, appeared to know the attacker, referring to him as “Mr. Fourth of July.”'

JFC

Not just the ones they don't like. They're corrupt and lazy. They don't go after any more than they have to.

To be perfectly fair, cops often literally don't have jurisdiction outside of their "home" precinct. If they witness a crime outside of their jurisdiction they can make a citizen's arrest, or if they're in pursuit of someone who started in their jurisdiction they can chase, but they legally can't do anything otherwise.

To be perfectly fair, you're wrong.

If they came to her home, reasonably she was wanting to file a police report. Which they absolutely can do, but they refused.

A police officer may arrest a person for a crime, pursuant to subdivision one, whether or not such crime was committed within the geographical area of such police officer's employment, and he or she may make such arrest within the state, regardless of the situs of the commission of the crime.

Kinda sounds like yes they can. Besides, all this person tried to do was file a report. What you're seeing here is that cops don't feel like doing any part of the job that doesn't involve LARPing a 90s action film.

Cops have authority anywhere in the state, which is why they can be brought in from surrounding areas for special events, riots and other incidents, and can arrest you off-duty if they witness something illegal.

They literally don't have de-facto jurisdiction over an entire state. This is easily googlable. Additionally, I addressed doing citizen's arrest already, which is what them doing an "off duty" arrest is.

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