Bad Cop - On-duty cop caught on video robbing a bar!
Pat's Cafe, a tiny corner bar in the Lower Northeast, is regarded as something of a sacred space by local residents and men and women in blue.
It is the place where Officer Gary Skerski, a beloved community-relations cop, lost his life when he interrupted an armed robbery on a warm spring night four years ago. An old wreath, a pair of decaying roses and a few small candles still mark the spot outside the bar, at Castor Avenue and Arrott Street, where Skerski was gunned down.
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It is the place where Officer Gary Skerski, a beloved community-relations cop, lost his life when he interrupted an armed robbery on a warm spring night four years ago. An old wreath, a pair of decaying roses and a few small candles still mark the spot outside the bar, at Castor Avenue and Arrott Street, where Skerski was gunned down.
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| Imagine, then, how cops and locals felt yesterday when word spread that an on-duty police officer stole money from the bar's safe early Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said. The cop, who was joined by another on-duty officer and a third man in civilian clothes, hung out in the empty bar for about 40 minutes, watched TV and even drank beer, the sources said. At one point, the sticky-fingered cop was caught on camera as he reached into the safe, grabbed a wad of cash and shoved the money into his pants, said a source who viewed the footage. "It's cut and dry," the source said. "There's no question what he did." A police spokesman confirmed that Internal Affairs detectives are investigating the incident. Although officials otherwise stayed mum about the case yesterday, some details shook loose about how the burglary unfolded. A security alarm went off inside New Vision Auto Detailing and Auto Repairs, a garage behind Pat's, about 4 a.m., said a repair-shop employee. Two uniformed cops went to the shop and found no signs of trouble. Then, about 4:25 a.m., they apparently ventured over to Pat's, a one-story brick building with two security cameras pointed at its front doors. |
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