Thursday, March 28, 2024

Retired Black Corrections Officer Tearfully Accuses White Cops of Beating Him (WATCH)

*Retired black corrections officer Ronald Lanier has accused two white police officers in NYC of racial profiling for allegedly abusing him — physically and verbally — during a mistaken arrest last week, Huff Post reports.

53-year-old Lanier says he was shopping in a Mineola supermarket on Nov. 30 when the officers grabbed him from behind without warning. The officers were searching for a fleeing shoplifter, according to CBS 2 News.

Lanier became quite emotional during a press conference where he explained how he cooperated with the officers and identified himself as law enforcement. But they laughed and roughed him up as they placed him in handcuffs.

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“I’ve never been cursed, physically abused, beaten and treated like a slave as I was two days ago,” Lanier said in tears.

“They didn’t have a good description of who they were looking for. That doesn’t give you the right to go into a store and grab the first black person you see and throw them to the ground,” Lanier’s attorney Fred Brewington told 1010 WINS. “The fact that he happened to be a black male in the store does not make him a culprit. It does not make him a suspect.”

Officers allegedly held Lanier inside a squad car for about 20 minutes before letting him go, without an apology or explanation, and despite that another suspect had reportedly been taken into custody for the crime.

Lanier, who worked for Long Island’s Nassau County, said he plans to file a lawsuit against the Garden City Police Department, whose district borders Mineola.

“I’m tired of hearing officers constantly talking about we have to retrain. They don’t need to be retrained. They need to be held accountable for their actions,” Lanier said at the press conference. He also said he wants the officers to hand in their badges.

 

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