{"id":5193,"date":"2008-01-21T16:09:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/ny-cops-laugh-away-man-dies-roadside\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T16:09:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T16:09:19","slug":"ny-cops-laugh-away-man-dies-roadside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2008\/01\/ny-cops-laugh-away-man-dies-roadside\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Cops laugh away as man dies on roadside"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A few policemen in New York city saw a homeless Guatemalan immigrant dying on the roadside.  What do you think they did?<\/p>\n<p>(i) take him to hospital emergency<br>\n(ii) stood around joking about him and laughing away while he was dying?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was the second!  They were taped chuckling and joking \u2013 making fun of Rene Perez while he was dying.  And what do you think the Police Chief comes and tells everyone?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not callous or indifferent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\">Oh yeah???!!!<\/font>  Maybe he doesn\u2019t get English or simple things in life.. but these cops in NYC are just clueless about life and intelligence in general!  I am not sure how the New Yorkers can keep such lawless idiots in their midst as their law enforcers!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police officers were taped joking about a dying, homeless Guatemalan immigrant after he was found on the side of a deserted road in their suburban town, a TV station reported.<!--break--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanna hear something really funny? \u2026 He\u2019s alive,\u201d a Bedford police officer tells a sergeant on a taped phone call aired Thursday on WCBS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2004132861_apimmigrantdeath18.html?syndication=rss\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Story Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few policemen in New York city saw a homeless Guatemalan immigrant dying on the roadside.  What do you think they did?<\/p>\n<p>(i) take him to hospital emergency<br \/>\n(ii) stood around joking about him and laughing away while he was dying?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it was the second!  They were taped chuckling and joking &#8211; making fun of Rene Perez while he was dying.  And what do you think the Police Chief comes and tells everyone?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not callous or indifferent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#FF0000\">Oh yeah???!!!<\/font>  Maybe he doesn&#8217;t get English or simple things in life.. but these cops in NYC are just clueless about life and intelligence in general!  I am not sure how the New Yorkers can keep such lawless idiots in their midst as their law enforcers!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police officers were taped joking about a dying, homeless Guatemalan immigrant after he was found on the side of a deserted road in their suburban town, a TV station reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NY Cops laugh away as man dies on roadside<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A few policemen in New York city saw a homeless Guatemalan immigrant dying on the roadside. What do you think they did? (i) take him to hospital emergency (ii) stood around joking about him and laughing away while he was dying? Well, it was the second! They were taped chuckling and joking - making fun of Rene Perez while he was dying. And what do you think the Police Chief comes and tells everyone? &quot;We are not callous or indifferent.&quot; Oh yeah???!!! Maybe he doesn&#039;t get English or simple things in life.. but these cops in NYC are just clueless about life and intelligence in general! I am not sure how the New Yorkers can keep such lawless idiots in their midst as their law enforcers! 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