The stupidity if NYPD

[Safriz]

Absurd actions from the New York Police Department (NYPD) has come
to be expected given that they have been busted spying far outside of their jurisdiction, establishing offices around the world including Israel, arresting people for dancing, labeling people “professional agitators” for filming them, engaging in widespread surveillance and even throwing an officer in a psychiatric ward for reporting corruption. Yet it seems that they are trying to one-up their own insanity by
actually sending the mother of someone they killed with one of their
police cars a $710 repair bill to cover the damage his body did to their
cruiser. Yes, you read that right, the NYPD actually sent a bill to fix the dent
left by now dead 23-year-old Tamon Robinson, who was killed by an
NYPD vehicle in Brooklyn in April, to his still-mourning family. The incident occurred when Robinson was caught digging up paving
stones outside his home in Bayview Houses in the Canarsie
neighborhood of Brooklyn. Robinson was fleeing police when the car smashed into him causing
serious blunt impact head injures which left him in a coma from the
moment of impact. Robinson died six days later, never waking up from
the coma. According to his mother, Robinson was working at a muffin shop while
also trying to make additional money by hawking items like paving
stones to scrap dealers. The bill, which the British Daily Mail characterized as “a brutal blood- money demand,” was dated September 27, with the reason for the $
710 being listed as “property damage to a vehicle owned by the New
York Police Department.” The bill added that the family would be facing a lawsuit if they failed
to pay within 10 days of receiving it. “We’re still grieving, and this is like a slap in the face,” said Laverne
Dobbinson, Robinson’s 45-year-old mother, to the New York Daily News. “They want my son to pay for damage to the vehicle that killed him,”
Dobbinson added. “It’s crazy.” Dobbinson sought out her own legal advice and she said she intends to
sue New York City as well. Her lawyer, Sanford Rubenstein, dubbed the
repair bill a “disgrace” in his filing. “In my 40 years of practicing law in this city I have never seen
anything as heartless as this,” Rubenstein said to the New York Daily
News. Rubenstein also called on the NYPD to refrain from repairing any of the
damages to the vehicle since it would be a violation of a court order to
preserve it as evidence in the ongoing criminal investigation. Dobbinson’s frustration with the NYPD does not just stem from the $
710 bill, indeed she also claims that the treatment of her son in the
aftermath of being hit by the NYPD vehicle was far from acceptable. She alleges that while he was lying in bed brain-dead he was shackled
to the bed under police guard. Dobbinson said that she was only
allowed him to visit for 20 minutes. To make matters even worse, police “smashed their way into the
family’s apartment,” as the Daily Mail put it, on the day of Robinson’s
funeral. The police later claimed that they simply had the wrong
address on a search warrant. According to Dobbinson, the city actually repaired her door the same
day. Since the death of her son Dobbinson has relentlessly sought the arrest
of the officers involved. She has staged multiple rallies and
demonstrations towards that end along with a Facebook memorial page. While the New York City medical examiner ruled that Robinson’s death
was an accident, his death is still under investigation by the Brooklyn
District Attorney and the NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau. The investigation likely continues due to the fact that witnesses allege
that Robinson was actually deliberately run over by the NYPD officers. While the Daily Mail reports, “New York City officials have since
apologized for sending the collection letter,” the New York Daily News
reports, “An NYPD spokesman did not return a call or email seeking
comment.”