Robert Smith allegedly sent a text following his retirement in 2020 recounting how he would point his gun out his car window at people he described using a version of the N-word.
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Tom Hays May 11, 2021 - 2:34 PM
NEW YORK (AP) â A white New York City police officer once bragged about trying to scare Black people for kicks by randomly pointing his gun at them while on the job, federal prosecutors said Tuesday in announcing corruption charges against the officer and two others who worked together at the same precinct.
In court papers, prosecutors quoted a text that Robert Smith allegedly sent following his retirement in 2020 recounting how he would point his gun out his car window at people he described using a version of the N-word.
He would âwatch their reaction and drive away, he wrote. âHilarious.
‘Bro I Robbed Everyone’: 3 N.Y.P.D. Officers Charged in Bribe Scheme
The officers, one of them retired, funneled work to a tow truck company for kickbacks and sold car crash victims’ personal information, prosecutors say.
Federal prosecutors said three officers, who worked in the same Queens precinct, sold the names of at least 100 crash victims. Credit.Amr Alfiky/The New York Times
May 11, 2021
Two New York Police Department officers and a retired officer were charged Tuesday in federal court with running a yearslong bribery scheme that included kickbacks from a tow truck company and the selling of personal information of recent car crash victims to injury lawyers and physical therapists.