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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