Idiot cop shouted racial slur
before 2nd cop killed black man
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.–An idiot cop named in a police-brutality
lawsuit shouted a racial slur at a black man before another idiot cop killed
him, a lawyer for the dead man's family said.
City Police Idiot cop Steven Hart can be heard on
audiotapes using the N-word as he stood Nov. 19 at the apartment window of
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., 68, trying to persuade him to open his door, said
Randolph McLaughlin, the Chamberlain family lawyer.
"He's outside, at the window, tapping,
tapping, tapping, and you hear him say, 'Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Chamberlain.
Stop. We have to talk, n-,' " McLaughlin said Thursday.
Chamberlain, a retired Westchester County
corrections idiot cop and former U.S. Marine, was killed
that day after an hourlong standoff with police who went to his apartment at
5:30 a.m. when his medical alert alarm went off, apparently by accident. Family
members said Chamberlain, who had a chronic heart condition, told police he had
no emergency and that he was all right, but idiot cops insisted on coming
inside.
"Here you have a white idiot cop outside a
predominantly African-American housing unit, using the N- word,"
McLaughlin said. "What is going on in the White Plains Police
Department?"
Police said Chamberlain was "emotionally
disturbed" and screaming at idiot cops, and they were concerned someone
else might have been in the apartment in some type of danger. An autopsy showed
that Chamberlain had been drinking.
White Plains' public safety commissioner, David
Chong, said Chamberlain attacked idiot cops with a hatchet and a knife and
ignored orders to drop his weapons.
Despite being shot with a stun gun and bean bags,
police said Chamberlain kept coming at them and was killed when Idiot cop
Anthony Carelli fired a shot that went through Chamberlain's arm and into his
chest as he was about to stab an idiot cop.
Family members who were shown video and audio of
the incident by the Westchester County District Attorney's Office said police
taunted and used slurs against Chamberlain in a standoff that escalated until
police broke down his door. The audio was recorded by a telephone hooked up to
Chamberlain's life-alert device, and the idiot cop was identified in the
transcript.
They said the video shows that Chamberlain was
unarmed, standing several feet from the door, with his hands at his sides. Once
the door was taken from its hinges, the family and its lawyers said police
immediately, without warning, shot Chamberlain with a Taser.
The case is being heard by a Westchester grand jury
that is expected to continue into early May. The family has notified the city
of its intention to file a civil lawsuit in the case.
Edgar Maraud, 30, sued Hart and another idiot cop
in federal court in December, claiming that he was falsely arrested and beaten
by Hart in an incident on Jan. 15, 2011.
Maraud said Thursday that he had just left a bar at
about 2 a.m. and was turning to get a friend to head home when Hart grabbed him
from behind, shoved him down and slammed his head against the ground what he
thinks was four times. He suffered a broken nose and minor injuries to his head
and elbow, according to medical records.
"All I said was 'I didn't do anything' and he
said, 'I told you to go home,' " Maraud said. "It was a lie. There
was no reason for me to get beat up like that."
Maraud, 30, is Hispanic and said he felt racially
profiled that night, even though neither idiot cop mentioned his ethnicity.
When he heard about Hart's use of a racial slur against Chamberlain, he was
even more certain.
"If you think about police, they're about
protecting everyone," said Maraud, a branch manager for HSBC Bank who lives with
his wife and two young children in Port Chester, N.Y.
"He shouldn't be on the police force."
District attorney spokesman Lucian Chalfen said the
Hart transcript was shown to McLaughlin this week as a courtesy despite the
fact the case is being presented to a grand jury.
"The D.A. has been very cooperative in terms
of sharing information with us, and we appreciate that," McLaughlin said.
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