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NYPD Lieutenant Apologizes to the Wrong People for the Wrong Things
“The cop in me wants to kick my own ass”
According to NBC News, Lt. Robert Cattani sent an e-mail to his colleagues apologizing for kneeling during a protest.
“[It] goes against every principle and value that I stand for.” — Lt. Robert Cattani
I’m sure it leaves people puzzled about the values he’s speaking about. I don’t think Eric Garner would understand those values, either. Eric Garner was, of course, killed by an NYPD officer on July 17, 2014, for selling loose cigarettes. That was six years ago, and, today, Garner isn’t with us to share these insights that Cattani has the blessing to have.
“I know that it was wrong and something I will be shamed and humiliated about for the rest of my life,” Cattani wrote in his e-mail.
On July 6, 2019, Philando Castile, a 32-year-old African American man was stopped by Jeronimo Yanez, a Hispanic-American police officer. This was in Minnesota.
Castile was driving with his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds and their four-year-old daughter when they were stopped.
In the events that unfolded, Castile told the officer that he had a registered firearm, to which the…
