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Cop Arrested for Bragging: 'I Fried Another N*****'

Officer Michael Daragjati also charged with extortion, insurance fraud

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 17, 2011 4:31 PM CDT

(Newser) – One New York City police officer will be spending a lot of time in court—and it won't be time spent testifying against criminals. Eight-year veteran Michael Daragjati has been charged with using a racial slur while boasting that he'd lied about a black man resisting arrest earlier this year, the New York Times reports. After attending the man's court hearing, Daragjati, 32, said on his phone, “I sat there for a couple of hours by the time I got it all done but, fried another n***er ... No big deal."

But that's not all: Daragjati is also facing an extortion charge for reportedly punching and threatening a neighbor whom Daragjati thought had stolen a snowplow. In another case, Daragjati is accused of intentionally bashing a truck and claiming it was an accident. As for the false arrest charge, civil rights advocates may not be surprised: They have long complained that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy profiles blacks and Latinos. (Click through to read about a cop accused of organizing orgies for Dominique Strauss-Kahn.)

In this April 5, 2011 file photo, a police officer holds a radiation detection device, right, during a dirty bomb drill on the Third Avenue bridge in New York.
In this April 5, 2011 file photo, a police officer holds a radiation detection device, right, during a dirty bomb drill on the Third Avenue bridge in New York.   (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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dvillain5
Nov 29, 2011 9:31 AM CST
This is just very wrong for a cop to be saying this. Furthermore, I also find it intriguing that the article states "They have long complained that the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy profiles blacks and Latinos." Not that I find it surprising but cops are most likely to profile against minorities and people of different colored skin. We've all heard the argument about how cops could do a much more efficient job if they were allowed to profile people and through suspicion, pull someone over. But the bottom line is that its just wrong, I've read countless articles about how people have been pulled over or stopped or arrested just because of their look and how the cop judge them. This stereotypical action is unacceptable and if cops are to pull someone over or arrest them he needs to have a good reason besides 'he looked suspicious.'  Back to the article, this cop is degrading this man by using that 'word' and also dehumanizing him and his race by saying "I fried another n-word." He is treating them like he's going out hunting and trying to bag one of them, like saying 'yeap, i got another one.' Simply put, its just wrong for people to profile and to say things like that so nonchalantly. 
DVMStraight14Words
Oct 19, 2011 4:41 PM CDT
Who cares? Look at all the fuss over Mark Fuhrman. It's just a word. Have you ever seen a African-"American" cop ever go to jail over using the word "cracker", "peckerwood" or "honkey"? I'm willing to bet some of them have said those racially offensive words!
Caps
Oct 18, 2011 10:26 AM CDT
Most Cops are nothing more than BULLIE.

 
NYPD • civil rights • racial profiling • New York City Police Department

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