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Cops force man to rap for his freedom: suit
It was rhyme and punishment.
A Brooklyn man says he was forced to rap for a crew of NYPD cops to get out of handcuffs — and warned that if his rhymes weren’t “hot’’ enough, they wouldn’t free him.
Quinshon Shingles’s coerced ditty about booze, “bitches” and weed was good enough to get him released — and enough to prompt a scathing Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.
“I felt like they were humiliating me,” said Shingles, whose rap name is “Sauce Da Boss,” to The Post on Tuesday.
“They were all Caucasian officers, and I’m a black man, and they had me performing for my freedom. I was really upset.”
Shingles, 28, said he, his cousin and another male pal were at the cousin’s East New York home in December 2011 when the plainclothes officers arrived demanding to perform a search, the suit states.
The cousin, Tyriek Fortune, was suspected of a criminal offense, the suit says, although it’s unclear exactly what the alleged crime was.
http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/cops-forced-man-to-rap-for-his-freedom-in-2011-bust/
A Brooklyn man says he was forced to rap for a crew of NYPD cops to get out of handcuffs — and warned that if his rhymes weren’t “hot’’ enough, they wouldn’t free him.
Quinshon Shingles’s coerced ditty about booze, “bitches” and weed was good enough to get him released — and enough to prompt a scathing Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit.
“I felt like they were humiliating me,” said Shingles, whose rap name is “Sauce Da Boss,” to The Post on Tuesday.
“They were all Caucasian officers, and I’m a black man, and they had me performing for my freedom. I was really upset.”
Shingles, 28, said he, his cousin and another male pal were at the cousin’s East New York home in December 2011 when the plainclothes officers arrived demanding to perform a search, the suit states.
The cousin, Tyriek Fortune, was suspected of a criminal offense, the suit says, although it’s unclear exactly what the alleged crime was.
http://nypost.com/2013/11/05/cops-forced-man-to-rap-for-his-freedom-in-2011-bust/
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Response to bravenak (Reply #1)
What makes them think they can do this stuff and not get sued?? 
... they got away with it for so long. 
would have been Abner Louima-ed. 
... you have bigots as cops. And they got paid for it!
What's the going sentence for hate crime these days?
Their sentence needs to be doubled. 
