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Female African-American Nassau County Police Officer Charges Nassau Police with False Arrest, Racial Discrimination, Verbal and Physical Abuse
On December 5, Officer Dolores Sharpe, an African-American woman and veteran of the Nassau County Police Department, was joined by her attorney, Frederick K. Brewington, and members of Law Enforcement Alliance, Blacks in Law Enforcement of America, Long Island Chapter and other supporters at the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington to address her wrongful treatment, false arrest and abuse at the hands of two fellow Nassau County police officers. The mistreatment of Officer Sharpe by Officers Charles L. Volpe and Victor J. Gladitz is not an event that is being taken lightly as will be evident by the number of police organizations throughout Nassau and New York State that will speak on her behalf.
On November 29, Officer Sharpe was confronted by another member of the department who exhibited an uncontrolled level of aggression, abusive language and vindictive nature that clearly places the public at risk. Officer Volpe’s decision to become vulgar, verbally abusive and physically threatening to Officer Sharpe, along with the use of verbal threats and unnecessary physical force by Officer Gladitz, mark a series of improper acts against Officer Sharpe that not only violated her rights as a citizen, but violated numerous procedures, rules and regulations for which each of these officers should be made to answer. Then the misuse of arrest, and the filing of false charges of resisting arrest against Officer Sharpe has only served to make a bad situation worse. Any claim of resisting arrest against Officer Sharpe is nothing short of ludicrous, and can only be seen as an attempt by the subject officers to cover up their own wrongful and discriminatory acts. Their complete disdain and ongoing verbal abuse of Officer Sharpe is seen as a clear exhibition of racial bias that was evident from Officer Volpe’s opening barrage of curses and insults.
The demand for the dismissal of all charges, immediate restoration of Officer Sharpe to her duties with full pay and that she have her weapons and property returned to her will be made. Officer Sharpe was forced to endure the act of being cursed at; handcuffed in public; having the unauthorized removal of her service weapon from her; disrespected in multiple ways; having her credentials snatched from her possession; and then physically grabbed, slammed, and handled by the officers all without reason or legal authority. Not only was this incident one which subjected Officer Sharpe to an extreme level of humiliation, but the clear attempt by these two officers was to personally degrade her and deprive her of any sense of dignity.
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