Former NYPD detective Michael Bergmann will not serve any jail time after pleading guilty to perjury for lying to the grand jury.
The District Attorney has asked for a year in jail, but Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced him to probation.
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The District Attorney has asked for a year in jail, but Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced him to probation.
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Detective Bergmann tried to frame an innocent man - Pedro Barbosa - claiming he had tried to mow him down with his car.
Mr. Barbosa faced 15 years in prison because of the detective's testimony.
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Mr. Barbosa faced 15 years in prison because of the detective's testimony.
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And because Mr. Barbosa could not afford bail, he was in jail for 6 months pending trial before his lawyers found this video & persuaded the DA to dismiss charges against him.
So he did 6 months in jail, but the cop who framed him is good with no time.
So he did 6 months in jail, but the cop who framed him is good with no time.
The judge who sentenced Detective Bergmann to no jail time, Danny Chun, is best known for sentencing former NYPD officer Peter Liang to probation and community service in the killing of Akai Gurley. nytimes.com/2016/04/20/nyr…
But that is just one of many shooting and brutality cases where Justice Chun has sentenced police officers to no jail time even when the Brooklyn District Attorney has requested prison sentences.
I wrote a thread detailing these cases here.
I wrote a thread detailing these cases here.
In Brooklyn, cases involving police officers as defendants or complainants are steered to Justice Chun's part (the same thing happens in other boroughs).
All the judges who hear police cases in NYC have reputations for pro-police bias.
All the judges who hear police cases in NYC have reputations for pro-police bias.
And it's not just that cops get no jail time, it's that people, children, charged in cases involving cops as complainants, get sentences out of all proportion to the charged crime. Witness the case of Marcell Dockery, which was heard before Justice Chun.
At a bare minimum this system has to be changed so that cases involving cops have to be randomly assigned. The odds would still be stacked against victims of police violence, but as things are now there is no hope for any accountability. And police know this.
PS. First tweet should say "had" not "has."
