Then the cop, during his role as Internal Affairs investigator of his own misconduct, starts intimidating family members of the person who videotaped the cop's misconduct and posted it on Youtube, threatening them with a federal wiretap prosecution.
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http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090419/NEWS02/304199926
In the early stages of the Erie police internal investigation of a YouTube video, the internal-affairs inspector had an assistant in the probe: the patrolman whose behavior on the video was under scrutiny.
Erie Police Chief Steve Franklin said he saw no problem with the arrangement, and said he would have handled the investigation the same way.
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Cousins was still on the job Tuesday. He was in uniform and in his squad car, driving DeDionisio around. The two were searching for the person who posted the video on YouTube after recording Cousins, off duty and apparently intoxicated, at a Girard bar about 10 p.m. on April 6. The video was uploaded to YouTube later that night.
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At one point on Tuesday, Cousins was allowed to discuss the video with a person who was a potential witness in the internal-affairs case against him. That person, the brother of the man who posted the video, said Cousins was nearly in tears as he implored the man to try to find a way to remove the video, which ended up remaining on YouTube.
"He said, 'Look, man, they are telling me I could lose my job over this,'" the man said Cousins told him.
The man said DeDionisio also threatened him with a federal wiretap prosecution.
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