I'll be the judge.
"NYPD officers acquitted of rape in ’08 case" Associated Press / May 27, 2011
NEW YORK — Two police officers were acquitted yesterday of raping a drunken woman they had been called to help, as a jury convicted them only of misdemeanor official misconduct charges in a case that pitted a stunning claim of police abuse against the officers’ insistence that it simply didn’t happen.
Looking exhausted but relieved as they left court, Officers Franklin Mata and Kenneth Moreno said they felt vindicated by the verdict, though it could send them to jail....
“My intentions were, from the beginning, just to help her,’’ Moreno said. He was accused of raping the woman, with Mata serving as a lookout; the two had returned to her apartment three times after an initial call to help her get home.
Yeah, looking to help themselves to some booty!!
Moreno, 43, said he did so to check on her, at her request, and to counsel her about drinking....
Uh-huh.
Jurors found each officer guilty of three official misconduct charges for returning to the woman’s apartment without telling dispatchers or superiors where they were.
?????
Why? What were you guys trying to hide?
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"Boy, 4, mauled to death by dog
NEW YORK — A 4-year-old boy was fatally mauled by a pit bull yesterday when the dog, which had been feared by neighbors, suddenly attacked him in his Brooklyn home. Jayelin Graham suffered wounds to his head, neck, and torso. (AP)
Woman, 30, dies in fall from hotel
ATLANTA — A 30-year-old woman died on her birthday and another woman was seriously injured when they plunged from a hotel window early yesterday morning. Witnesses told police that 30-year-old Lashawna Threatt and a second woman were “play wrestling’’ in a room at the W Midtown Hotel around 3:15 a.m. when they crashed into a window and fell four or five stories onto a slanted glass ceiling above a sunroom. (AP)
That's why parents used to yell no horseplay at kids.
Charge for rude gesture dropped
DENVER — A harassment charge has been dropped in the case of a 35-year-old Colorado man who faced prosecution for displaying his middle finger to a State Patrol trooper, officials said.
:-)
The American Civil Liberties Union had argued that while the gesture may have been rude, it amounted to protected free speech. According to the ACLU, Shane Boor received a criminal summons for allegedly making the gesture while passing a trooper in his car (AP)."
(Blog editor breaks out laughing; just doing what we all want to do)
Not laughing for long:
"2 killed, 21 hurt in Wash. bus crash" by Associated Press / May 30, 2011
CLE ELUM, Wash. — A bus carrying soccer fans forced one car off the road and then slammed into a disabled pickup truck on the shoulder of Interstate 90 in Central Washington, killing two people and injuring 21 others, authorities said....
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