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“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”
“It’s becoming a disturbingly familiar scene in America - mentally unstable cops”

Fairfax County Police Officer David Ziants award for kill somebody and the worst thing that happens to you is you get fired.

Cop sued in Fatal Shooting


The homicide of 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, a black Marine vet shot dead at his home by police in White Plains, New York, last November after he accidentally set off his wearable medical alert device. A previous BB post on the story is here. The victim's son and other advocates have been pressuring authorities to release the name of the officer involved:

Documented in audio recordings, the White Plains police reportedly used a racial slur, burst through Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, then shot him dead. "The last time I actually really saw my father, other than the funeral, was at the hospital, with his eyes wide open, his tongue hanging out his mouth, and two bullet holes in his chest," said Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr. "And I’m staring at my father, wondering, 'What happened?'"

The alleged shooter, Officer Anthony Carelli, is due in court later this month in an unrelated 2008 police brutality case. He is accused of being the most brutal of a group of officers who allegedly beat two arrestees of Jordanian descent and called them "rag heads."



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Exclusive: Cop in Fatal Shooting of Ex-Marine Kenneth Chamberlain ID’d, Sued in 2008 Racism Case

In a broadcast exclusive, we reveal the name of the police officer who allegedly killed 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, the retired African-American Marine who was shot dead in his own home in White Plains, New York, in November after he inadvertently triggered his medical alert pendant. Documented in audio recordings, the White Plains police reportedly used a racial slur, burst through Chamberlain’s door, tasered him, then shot him dead. "The last time I actually really saw my father, other than the funeral, was at the hospital, with his eyes wide open, his tongue hanging out his mouth, and two bullet holes in his chest," said Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr. "And I’m staring at my father, wondering, 'What happened?'"

The alleged shooter, Officer Anthony Carelli, is due in court later this month in an unrelated 2008 police brutality case. He is accused of being the most brutal of a group of officers who allegedly beat two arrestees of Jordanian descent and called them "rag heads." We speak to Gus Dimopoulos, attorney for Jerry and Sal Hatter. "We allege that the police officers, while in the custody of the White Plains Police Department back at the station, you know, severely beat Jerry while being restrained by handcuffs. They hit him in the face with a nightstick, they kicked, they punched, they punched him, and then essentially charged him with a crime," Dimopoulos said.

Despite repeated requests from Chamberlain’s family for the name of the officer who killed him, White Plains Public Safety Commissioner David Chong only named Carelli as the shooter this morning, after his name appeared in an article written by Democracy Now!'s Juan Gonzalez in the New York Daily News. The White Plains police have refused to say whether Carelli has been disciplined or assigned to desk duty after the fatal shooting of Chamberlain. We get an update on the Chamberlain case from the victim's son, Kenneth Chamberlain, Jr., and his two attorneys, Mayo Bartlett and Abdulwali Muhammad. We also speak with Gus Dimopoulos, a lawyer for the 2008 victims, Jereis Hatter and Salameh Hatter. [includes rush transcript]

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White Plains cop who killed ex-Marine Kenneth Chamberlain faces brutality suit



The White Plains police officer who fatally shot Kenneth Chamberlain in November is one of six city officers going on trial this month in a $10 million federal civil rights lawsuit accusing them of using excessive force during an arrest four years ago.

Jereis Hattar, 27, a Jordanian-American from Yonkers, claims Officer Anthony Carelli hit him in the eye with a baton while he was handcuffed in the booking area of police headquarters early on May 24, 2008. Hattar and his twin brother, Salameh, were arrested that morning outside Black Bear Saloon on Mamaroneck Avenue.

The brothers have accused Carelli and the other officers of beating and kicking them and calling them “ragheads” and other racial slurs.

The officers’ lawyer, Joseph Maria, said there was no police brutality that night, just two brothers who had too much to drink, including one who was hurt in a bar fight before the police arrived.

“He was injured already when (the officers) put him in the car, and then he kept banging his head around in there,” Maria said.

In March 2009, a city judge acquitted the brothers of disorderly conduct charges. Two months later, they sued the officers, the city and the Police Department.

In January, U.S. District Judge Vincent Briccetti dismissed all of Salameh Hattar’s claims, as well as his brother’s claims against the city, the Police Department and another officer.

In addition to Carelli, the officers facing trial this month are Sgt. John Glynn and Officers Julio Orellana, Sebastian DaCosta, Hector Fuentes and Julio Rivera.

Orellana and Carelli claimed in depositions that, on the ride to the police station, Jereis Hattar repeatedly banged his head against the police car partition. But a doctor is expected to testify for Hattar that his eye injury was inconsistent with hitting his head in such a manner.

Maria insisted he had no idea until Thursday that one of his clients was the officer involved in the fatal shooting in November. He said it would have no bearing on the upcoming trial because details of the shooting would not be admissible and the judge would screen jurors to determine whether they had knowledge of the shooting or had formed an opinion of it.



Chamberlain, an ex-Marine and retired Westchester County correction officer, was killed in his apartment Nov. 19 after police responded to a medical-alert notification.

It was not until this week, as the Westchester District Attorney’s Office is about to present the case to a grand jury, that police publicly identified Carelli as the officer who shot Chamberlain.

Randolph M. McLaughlin, a lawyer for the Chamberlain family, said the lawsuit confirmed their suspicions about Carelli.

“We really wondered all along why this man’s name wasn’t released, and now we know,” he said. “This individual has a pending federal court case against him involving police brutality and includes the use of racial slurs. The police should have known that he had issues and mandated retraining. They apparently did absolutely nothing. So not only did he beat up someone in handcuffs, now he’s killed someone.”

The other family lawyer, Mayo Bartlett, said Carelli’s name “should have been released immediately.”

“My concern is that he was working with no restrictions despite the fact that he’s facing a federal lawsuit on brutality allegations,” Bartlett said.

Bartlett called for police to release the names of all the officers involved in the Chamberlain case

Damon Jones, New York representative for Blacks in Law Enforcement of America, said cover-ups of police brutality in Westchester are “systematic” and he blamed that on District Attorney Janet DiFiore.

He said DiFiore’s decision to prosecute the Hattar brothers was part of a cover-up and that her administration “has never prosecuted any police officer in Westchester County for any cases of police brutality.”

He said she continuously turns over investigations of questionable police actions “back to the police department in question,” and prosecutes the victims.



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