Immature NYPD Cops or Tasteless Prank?

By Matthew Williams
16:59, July 24th 2008
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Police are investigating the sad, but somewhat hilarious case of a clandestine black doll head hitching a ride on the antenna of a police car while on patrol in Harlem on Tuesday.

State Senator Bill Perkins accused yesterday the New York Police Department of not investigating accusations according to which a white lieutenant and officer were driving around Harlem Tuesday with the head of a large doll on the unmarked car's back antenna. The NYPD said the police officers apparently did not know it was there and that kids had probably put it there as a joke. According to police, are searching for the surveillance video to find the guilty.

"Two cops don't see the doll's head on the antenna?" Perkins said. "That's incredible. It's a bald-faced lie. They continue to perpetuate the kind of distrust and the growing gap between the community and the police."

Several teenagers said they noticed the doll around noon time and other times Tuesday, but Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne contradicted their statement saying the car was not in use until 3 p.m. Browne said at about 6:30 p.m., the cops stopped for a restaurant opening on Fifth Avenue. They checked in with Deputy Insp. Dwayne Montgomery — a black person — who said he saw nothing. They then made another stop at a basketball tournament.

According to Brown, when the cops went back to the restaurant, someone indicated towards the head. The lieutenant denied having put it there, said he would never do such Browne added.

However, Perkins said the cops hid the head in the trunk when a teen tried to take a picture.

According to Police, as of Wednesday, Internal Affairs investigators were looking at surveillance video to find the guilty.

An afternoon rally is scheduled at Marcus Garvey Park to draw attention upon the incident.



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