New York Daily News – by JOHN MARZULLI
Two Brooklyn men are suing the NYPD cops who took their freedom and allegedly tried to take their White Castle hamburgers.
It was Halloween 2012 in Coney Island, the neighborhood reeling from Hurricane Sandy, when Danny Maisonet and Kenneth Glover had a craving for sliders.
They were getting out of a taxicab, carrying a bag of the burgers, when they walked into cops rounding up a group of men suspected of looting a supermarket on Neptune Ave., lawyer Robert Marinelli said in the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The cops — it’s unclear if they were kidding or starved out of their minds — demanded the bag of food. The plaintiffs refused to turn over the burgers.
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The cops allegedly demanded the bag of White Castle and the plantiffs refused.
Glover and Maisonet claim they were struck with flashlights and handcuffed. They were charged with obstructing government administration and disorderly conduct — not looting.
Officer Angelo Pizzarro swore in the complaint that Glover and Maisonet were standing in his way and forced him to walk around them while struggling with the alleged looters.
The charges against the duo were ultimately dismissed.
The City Law Department declined to comment.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-men-sue-nypd-white-castle-article-1.1722336
I used to live near a White Castle and if you’ve ever had a ‘slider,’ you wouldn’t blame these cops (we’re not talking the frozen Walmart ones but the real ones).
I couldn’t imagine getting arrested over a Black Dungeon burger, or even a bag full of them. We used to buy those things just to throw at people when we were drunk.
They probably mistook them for a bag of donuts.
Maybe, just MAYBE, I could see it, if they were Five Guys burgers.
But WHITE CASTLE???
I think that this proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that those cops are definitely certifiable.