John Perreault (pictured below), a Leominster, Massachusetts police officer was booted off the force for spewing racial slurs at Boston Red Sox star player Carl Crawford (pictured left), reports the Union Leader.
The outfielder, who is Black, was signing autographs in front of the dugout on July 5 at the New Hampshire Fisher Cats game against the Portland Sea Dogs in Manchester, where he began a rehabilitation assignment with Boston’s Double-A affiliate. Perreault, who was off-duty, was spotted heckling Crawford from the stands and shouting the term “Monday.”
The derogatory word is used to describe blacks and is the equivalent of the N-word. The term originated from having an aversion to the first day of the work week and is often used in the hope that the intended target will not know they have been insulted. Reportedly, Perreault has been checked before for being racially offensive and the Mayor of Leominster, Dean Mazzarella, decided that his racist reign had to come to an end.
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NYPD detective suspended after cops find man tied up and being held for ransom in officer’s garage
Investigators from the NYPD’s major case squad went to the Springfield Gardens home of veteran cop Ondre Johnson after they were tipped off that a man was being held for $75,000 ransom, the sources said.
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Officer Ondre Johnson's house, where police found a man tied up in the garage.
An NYPD detective was suspended without pay after cops found a man bound and being held for ransom in the garage of the officer’s Queens home, law enforcement sources said Saturday.Investigators from the NYPD’s major case squad went to the Springfield Gardens home of veteran cop Ondre Johnson, 45, about 3 p.m. Friday — after they were tipped off that a man was being held for $75,000 ransom, the sources said.
Cops honed in on the 181st St. address after they “pinged” a cell phone the kidnappers used to call a friend of the victim to demand the loot, sources said.
Johnson, a 17-year veteran who worked for the Brooklyn North Gang Unit, was walking out the front door as a team of detectives approached the home, sources said.
Johnson was taken into custody after he identified himself as an officer, sources said.
Soon after they got into the house, cops found a 25-year-old man tied
up in the garage, sources said. Investigators also found two safes
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14-year-old student found dead in Bronx park by his own father
Cassell Brooks, a Bronx father who went out to look for his son, Kemar Brooks, early Friday made a horrifying discovery: his son, murdered in a park, with a tennis racket in his hand.
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Facebook photo of 14-year-old Kemar Bryan Brooks, who was found dead by his father on the tennis courts at Haffen Park in the Bronx early today.
When his 14-year-old son didn’t come home from playing tennis in a local park, a worried Bronx dad went out looking for him.What he found was a horror beyond belief: his youngest child dead on the ground — a tennis racket in his hand and a bullet hole in his head.
“My heart dropped,” a grief-stricken Cassell Brooks said Friday, hours after he discovered the body of son Kemar in Haffen Park. “Why him?”
Police had no easy answers for Kemar’s family.
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Police investigate the scene at Haffen Park after the body of 14-year-old Kemar Brooks was found this morning.
Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival marks nation’s 50 years of independence with food, music and fun
Second annual celebration draws 8,500 to a showcase of Jamaican heritage and traditions at Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans
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About 8,500 people came out last Sunday to the Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival at Roy Wilkins Park.
The spicy scent of jerk seasoning wafted through the Caribbean crowds at the 2nd annual Grace Jamaican Jerk Festival in southeast Queens.About 8,500 people came out last Sunday to Roy Wilkins Park to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, hear live reggae music — and sample jerk chicken, pork and other Jamaican cuisine, organizers said.
“This pretty much showcases the heritage and traditions of Jamaica,” said Eddy Edwards, CEO of Jamaican Jerk Festival USA. He partnered with VP Records, a Jamaica, Queens-based reggae recording label.
“This event gives [Jamaicans] an opportunity to come and celebrate their heritage and culture,” Edwards said.
Reggae acts Tarrus Riley and the Fab 5 band headlined the festival, where tickets sold for $35 at the door.
There were also traditional Caribbean dances, a pop-up art gallery and Jamaican storytelling.
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