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Demovictory9

(32,445 posts)
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 06:04 PM Dec 2019

Police officer forced homeless man to lick a urinal, laughed about other times he's done the same th

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 wasn’t the first time he’d 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.

Ingall’s 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 couldn’t breathe and that he was choking when they brought him up.”

Ragabo reportedly told his partner to shut the bathroom door so they wouldn’t be caught on video violating the victim’s civil rights. That’s 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.

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Police officer forced homeless man to lick a urinal, laughed about other times he's done the same th (Original Post) Demovictory9 Dec 2019 OP
30 days? Only if serves it in general population. marble falls Dec 2019 #1
Excellent idea!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2019 #3
Put criminals in with the criminals. marble falls Dec 2019 #13
....and he has to lick a urinal each and every one of those 30 days...and twice on Sunday! /nt sdfernando Dec 2019 #11
Lock the sadistic cop up longer than 30 days!!! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2019 #2
Cruel bastards Hav Dec 2019 #4
Scumbags on Wheels.. whathehell Dec 2019 #5
They should make this cop lick a urinal. And go to jail. Maraya1969 Dec 2019 #6
That is flat out sadistic PatSeg Dec 2019 #7
He should have his face shoved in a pile of shit, see how he likes it. blueinredohio Dec 2019 #8
How Christians can think their religion has been successful defies reason. Karadeniz Dec 2019 #9
Depravity magicarpet Dec 2019 #10
Make it his job to clean the bathrooms when he gets to jail. lpbk2713 Dec 2019 #12

Hav

(5,969 posts)
4. Cruel bastards
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 06:13 PM
Dec 2019

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.

lpbk2713

(42,751 posts)
12. Make it his job to clean the bathrooms when he gets to jail.
Tue Dec 17, 2019, 07:37 PM
Dec 2019


And let the other prisoners watch and laugh.

Firing isn't good enough.

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