Posted on 10/08/2006 6:30:49 PM PDT by Enchante
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has launched a probe into what is widely considered one of the most embarrassing episodes in NYPD history: the coverup of a cop killing in Louis Farrakhan's Harlem mosque April 14, 1972.
Thirty-four years after he landed on the scene of the notorious Harlem mosque murder as a young sergeant, top cop Kelly told The Post he has assigned members of the Major Case Squad to reopen the investigation into the slaying of Police Officer Philip Cardillo inside a Nation of Islam mosque.
"There is a feeling in certain quarters that there are a lot of unanswered questions and if we can answer those questions, we have an obligation to do that," Kelly said.
Cardillo died five days after he was shot in the mosque alongside three other officers who were badly beaten after the four of them responded to a phony 911 call saying an officer was in trouble.
Fearing a racial riot in an age when every city outside New York had been torn up by black mobs, the investigation was hampered by politics.
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Perhaps there was a call for police, but would it have been a 911 call back in 1972? I was a high school senior then and I don't remember that 911 was in use back then.
It's going to be a whitewash. You can bet on it.
I just researched my own question: World's First 9-1-1 Call
Haleyville, AL - February 16, 1968. Congress initiated the establishment of the system in 1967, but it didn't really spread across the nation until the late 70's.
Isn't that when Mayor John Lindsay(may his name and memory be erased) made a deal for Calypso Louie to leave town, hence his feculent prescence in Chicago?
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