NYPD officers accused of raping an intoxicated woman

[ccharles000]

From The New York Times:

Two police officers have been assigned to desk duty while prosecutors and the police investigate a complaint that at least one of them raped an intoxicated woman after they escorted her into her apartment in the East Village three months ago, the police said on Sunday.
Footage from a nearby bar's video surveillance camera shows the two officers helping the woman into her building on Dec. 7 and returning twice during the next two hours, according to the bar owner, who provided the video to investigators.


The woman was so impaired, that she got sick in a cab and the driver called 911. The video shows the officers helping her home and leaving. It then shows them returning to her apartment 39 minutes later, in which one of the officers notices the video. When the video catches them leaving, it appears as if they're trying to avoid the camera's range.

The Internal Affairs Bureau is conducting an investigation, but no arrests have been made yet.

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[slackmaster]

1. Isolated incident

Nothing to see here. Move along.

[regnaD kciN]

2. Good thing Ghouliani isn't still mayor...

...or he would have, by now, held a news conference to reveal details of the woman's private life to "prove" that "she was a slut, and probably asked for it."

:grr:

[CoffeeCat]

3. It doesn't say, but is the woman...

...saying that she was raped?

Is there evidence that she was raped? Did she go to the police?

If these two cops did this to her, I hope that there is some
evidence and that they are put away for life.

[cynatnite]

4. It says a complaint was made...

That usually means the woman is accusing the officers of raping her.

[cabluedem]

5. Are you kidding? NYPD killed Sean Bell and walked free men. nt

[ccharles000]

6. I agree