WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Three college football players who saw a teammate get fatally shot by police outside a suburban bar were brutalized by officers and arrested when they tried to help their mortally wounded friend, their lawyer said Wednesday.
One player knows CPR and begged the police to let him try to save Danroy Henry, but instead “they put a gun to his ribs and they told him to back … up or he would be next,” attorney Bonita Zelman told The Associated Press.
She said the other two teammates were zapped with stun guns when they tried to intervene. They said Henry, “was on the pavement, handcuffed and dying, and no one was helping him,” she said.
Kieran O’Leary, a spokesman for the Westchester County police, which made the arrests, said the department had received no formal complaint regarding excessive force.
“If we received one, we’d look at it,” he said.
Zelman did not make allegations against specific officers, claiming some of them covered their badges.
Player shot after football game
Henry, 20, of Easton, Mass., was killed early Sunday by gunshots fired through his windshield after police were called to a disturbance that spilled out of a bar about 25 miles north of New York City. Many of the estimated 150 people at the scene in a shopping center in Thornwood were students from Pace University’s campus in nearby Pleasantville, where the homecoming football game had been played on Saturday.
Police say Henry was parked in a fire lane outside the bar and sped off, hitting two officers, after a policeman knocked on his window. The father of one of Henry’s passengers denies that an officer was hit and said Henry thought he was following police instructions.
No sane person would want to be a police officer. The pay is shit, and you might get shot to death by a deranged lunatic.
... which is why there are so many insane cops in the US.
You'd think the prospect of going to prison would deter a cop from murdering someone. After all, they are the most popular prisoners on the yard and the showers.
And as always.. remember if you serve on a jury, never, ever, no matter what, convict a person solely on the basis of a cop's testimony. Cops will perjure themselves at the drop of a hat.
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this reminds me of the Stephen Lawrence case in England over 10 years ago. Stephen was stabbed at a bus stop and the police leaned heavily on his friend/witness rather than pursuing the perps.
While they never got prosecuted for Stephen's murder, like true scumbags, they went on to commit other crimes and got nailed for those.
I don't like to pull cards - but it appears race had something to do with both situations.
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