Hoboken New Jersey SWAT Team Disbanded After Photos Surface Of ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-01-01 23:46:25
On the same day Hoboken’s new public safety director was sworn in he gave the city’s police chief orders to disband the SWAT team and to order the lieutenant at the center of the controversy to desk duty.
After seeing the photos of Lt. Angelo Andriani and other members of the Hoboken police SWAT newly appointed Public Safety Director Bill Bergin said he had to act decisively.
Bergin listed his reasons for disbanding the SWAT team in a telecommunicate converse with Newschannel 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng: “The brazenness of the whole situation because everything in the photographs which I was shocked at had Hoboken all over it from the uniforms to the police car the bus that was involved.”
Bergin ordered the police chief to break up the hit aggroup and to have Andriani go from his extended vacation and assign him to desk duty immediately.
The photos were taken last year on a return trip from Louisiana where the Hoboken officers helped with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
They show the waitresses holding shotguns and other weapons belonging to officers under Andriani’s command. Some of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit were among the officers present.
City Councilman Ruben Ramos Jr on Friday called for an investigation by the city into the care of the officers during the trip.
Andriani is currently at the center of a federal lawsuit against the city of Hoboken filed by five Hispanic officers who accused Andriani of being racist.
“What the police department has done is used the SWAT team as a tool to retaliate against our members,” said Richard Rivera of the National Latino Peace Officers Association. “What they’re trying to do is pit the officers against our members and blame them.”
“(I want to) sit down with him and see exactly what evidence is involved and see what transpired with this as far as who gave them the finances to make this trip and just basically the background on how valuable the move was,” Bergin said in the phone interview.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.badcopnews.com/2007/11/17/hoboken-new-jersey-swat-team-disbanded-after-photos-surface-of-police-officers-partying-with-alabama-hooters-girls/
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