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hrmjustin

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Thu Jul 3, 2014, 11:41 AM Jul 2014

Bill de Blasio Does Not Think The Cannibal Cop Should Get His Job Back

Jillian Jorgensen

To Mayor Bill de Blasio, the idea of the man dubbed the “cannibal cop” returning to the NYPD is a little hard to swallow.

“No, I don’t think he should ever get his job back, and I think it’s a troubling situation,” Mr. de Blasio said of former cop Gilberto Valle at an unrelated press conference Wednesday.

Mr. Valle graced the covers of the city’s tabloids when he was arrested and later convicted on charges of conspiring to abduct, murder and eat women he knew, including his wife. But he was sprung from jail this week after a judge overturned the most serious conviction in his case, kidnapping conspiracy, writing that the cop’s intricate dinner plans were no more than “fantasy role-play.”

Read more at http://observer.com/2014/07/bill-de-blasio-does-not-think-the-cannibal-cop-should-get-his-job-back/#ixzz36Q8Ht9s0

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