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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx Hawaii Cop Gets Four Years in Prison for Forcing Homeless Man to Lick Urinal
There are some truly sick people out there.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-rabago-ex-hawaii-cop-gets-four-years-for-forcing-homeless-man-to-lick-urinal?ref=home
Ex Hawaii Cop Gets Four Years in Prison for Forcing Homeless Man to Lick Urinal
YOU TOOK HIS DIGNITY
Jamie Ross
Published Jul. 16, 2020 6:32AM ET
Reuters / Hugh Gentry
A former Hawaii police officer has been sentenced to four years in prison for forcing a homeless man to lick a dirty public urinal. John Rabago, 44, responded to a nuisance complaint in 2018 with a second officer and found the homeless man in a stall inside a public restroom. Rabago threatened to beat the man unless he licked the urinalthen held the man down and stepped on his legs until he licked the toilet, according to U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi. The judge told Rabago at his sentencing: You took from him his only possession: his dignity as a human being. Rabago told the other officer who responded to the complaint, Reginald Ramones, to delete texts about what happened. Ramones will be sentenced next week after he pleaded guilty to not informing authorities about the abuse of power. Rabago offered an apology to the victim in court, and added: Two years ago I made a decision Im not proud of.
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Ex Hawaii Cop Gets Four Years in Prison for Forcing Homeless Man to Lick Urinal (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jul 2020
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Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)1. Good
I worked have preferred a lengthy sentences of community service we put too many people in prison.
JI7
(89,248 posts)3. I think this deserved prison
JI7
(89,248 posts)2. And make sure these people NEVER have any job where they have such control over other people again
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,956 posts)4. K&R
Cha
(297,196 posts)5. UnFreakingReal! :(