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A police officer in Hawaii confessed Monday that he gave a homeless man the option of licking a urinal or going to jail. He also laughed about the cruel act and bragged it wasnt the first time hed done it, according to NBC News.
Office John Rabago and his partner Reginald Ramones were reportedly responding to a nuisance call in January when they found Samuel Ingall, 39, seeking shelter in a public bathroom that the man said an employee sometimes left unlocked for him.
Ingalls family also claimed that Rabago, aided by Ramones, made the homeless man, who has struggled with drug problems, sit in urine while they held his head in toilet water to the point of where he couldnt breathe and that he was choking when they brought him up.
Ragabo reportedly told his partner to shut the bathroom door so they wouldnt be caught on video violating the victims civil rights. Thats when the bullying began.
After Ingall licked the urinal, he was allowed to leave the bathroom carrying whatever possessions he had. Ragabo reportedly followed him out laughing and boasting to other cops that what he had just done to Ingall was just like what happened at Cartwright Field.
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Ramones, who left the force in August, agreed to work with investigators. Ragabo could be removed from the police force and sentenced to 30 days in priso
Ingall, who has had several run-ins with law enforcement according to Hawaii News Now, did not report the incident when it happened. The FBI was alerted to the abuse when a fellow police officer reported it.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-police-offficers-homeless-man-toilet-lick-urinal-20191217-haetcryvuffkncr5l64b5ypyny-story.htmln.
marble falls
(57,063 posts)RKP5637
(67,102 posts)marble falls
(57,063 posts)sdfernando
(4,929 posts)RKP5637
(67,102 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)I'd also add that the police force in general would be seen in a better light had those who were aware of it reported it right away. Thankfully, one police officer eventually did the right thing.
whathehell
(29,054 posts)Hard to believe that Ragabo has only a CHANCE of being fired and jailed.
Maraya1969
(22,474 posts)PatSeg
(47,366 posts)Cruel for the sake of being cruel.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Karadeniz
(22,490 posts)magicarpet
(14,144 posts)lpbk2713
(42,751 posts)And let the other prisoners watch and laugh.
Firing isn't good enough.