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My Life as a Meanie by Howard Cruse

An NYPD cop speeding on his police scooter lost control and ran into an elderly man crossing the street, sending the man flying head over heels and leaving him injured in the street.

New York City police officer Thomas Hopper then cited Jose Flores for jaywalking, accusing him of endangering the life of an officer by stepping in front of him, even though a surveillance video shows Flores looked both ways before crossing.

But Hopper was not going to take the fall for his own fall. Not when he has a badge and can place the blame on a defenseless victim.

Flores was briefly transported to a hospital where he was chained to a bed and released without having x-rays done because the cops wanted to jail him on a ten-year-old warrant for an open container, according to Gothamist.

He then spent the next 36 hours in a jail cell complaining of neck pain, which led to other inmates giving him sandwiches that he was able to use as pillows.

A judge released him after dismissing the warrant and he spent the next four months in a hospital being treated for two broken vertebrae in his neck.

Meanwhile, Flores’ wife, who had been diagnosed with dementia a month before the incident, was so distraught that he was going to be jailed for jaywalking and endangering the life of a police officer, that she suffered a heart attack and died three months later.

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