WHAT A HEEL: NYC Cop Indicted In Hit-And-Run Incident
NYC police officer Louis Ramos has been indicted on charges assault, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident with injury for driving the wrong way on a Brooklyn street with his lights flashing and siren blaring, hitting a bicyclist when he ran a red light and then driving off, reports The New York Times:
Officer Ramos and his partner, Paris Anderson, got out of their police car, dragged the cyclist to the curb, handed him a tissue and drove off without calling an ambulance or reporting the accident, said Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney, in a criminal complaint. Surveillance cameras captured the encounter.
According to The Daily News, Anderson and Ramos said they thought the man had been startled by their patrol car's lights and sirens and fell off his bike. Surveillance video shows them pulling the rider onto the sidewalk and giving him tissues to clean the cuts and scrapes on his face, arms and legs before driving off:
It turns out the bicyclist had to go to the hospital, because he had broken his hand.
Ramos pleaded not guilty to the charges. He and his partner have been suspended without pay.
Editorial Note: It is unclear what crime or emergency Ramos and Anderson had been responding to when they went tearing through that Brooklyn neighborhood. Let’s hope it wasn’t a doughnut run.
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