Top supervisors of an elite NYPD anti-gun unit allegedly handled white suspects with kid gloves while treating blacks like “animals” deserving of a bullet to the head, the Daily News has learned.
The explosive charges appear in sworn depositions from three members of the firearms suppression unit: two current NYPD detectives and a retired first-grade detective.
Their testimony, part of a federal discrimination lawsuit, details how Capt. James Coan and Lt. Daniel Davin created a hostile environment for both their black detectives and suspected minority-group gun traffickers, said the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Eric Sanders.
“Capt. Coan would tell the field team . . . ‘They are (expletive removed) animals. You make sure if you have to shoot, you shoot them in the head. That way there’s one story,’ ” said the retired detective.
The ex-cop, identified only as Undercover 7988, said Coan’s racist rant came before every search warrant executed in Brooklyn’s Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York from 2008 to 2010.
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East New York, where gunshots can be heard during the daylight hours and dead bodies can be found on doorsteps in the morning.
There is a huge underclass in NY city, people on drugs from dysfunctional homes. The Police have to deal with them every day, at great risk to their lives.
It’s easy for the editors of ther Daily News, sitting in their comfortable leather chairs, to criticise the cop on the beat, who may not arrive home at night.
Talk to REAL crime reporters, on the beat, who accompany the Police on their rounds–people like Fred Reed–you’ll get the real story.
Maskim
You mean they are letting white criminal get away with stuff????? One expects police to beat up lowlifes (unless, of course, the lowlife is mishpahah, which means an obvious error was made). Police being nice to crooks is something to worry about.