>“Today will forever be the darkest day of our profession,” union president Vincent Vallelong said. Duran’s prison sentence, he said, “puts in the back of a police officer’s mind that they can lose their freedom” for making a split-second decision.
What a weird f****** world these dudes live in, where this is a bad thing.
Police culture is just fubar. It's like they *want* their job to be dangerous and Hollywood-like. They escalate at every turn. There's should be no point during a non-violent crime where you have to decide in a split second whether or not to use lethal force against a suspect. If you just HAVE to do undercover drug sales because you're otherwise bored, just record the transaction and find the guy later.
I get it. Jumping out from behind a tree and saying NYPD FREEZE PUT YOUR HANDS BEHIND YOUR BACK is funny because which is it? I'll be they look so confused--can I unfreeze to put my hands behind my back? Either way you can just beat the c*** out of them for not listening and give your wife a breather for the day.
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nilyroApr 10, 2026
+1
That's how your family likes it from what I heard
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Dire_HulkApr 10, 2026
+42
God forbid they should be subjected to the same treatment as the rest of us. Then justice would actually be fair.
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ThetruthislikepoetryApr 10, 2026
+145
Duran’s union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said thousands of officers signed an online petition calling for him to be spared prison.
“Today will forever be the darkest day of our profession,” union president Vincent Vallelong said. Duran’s prison sentence, he said, “puts in the back of a police officer’s mind that they can lose their freedom” for making a split-second decision.
Please show me where the NYPD training manual says to take the actions that Duran took? Please present his training that shows he was trained to throw a cooler at a fleeing moped?
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PaidUSAApr 10, 2026
+119
Like everyone else can lose their freedom for making a split second decision. What a f****** moron.
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FallouttgrrlApr 10, 2026
+54
The darkest day is him getting consequences
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ThetruthislikepoetryApr 10, 2026
+1
Notice that the darkest day of the police profession is when a cop gets sentenced for a crime, not when cops kill innocent people or are too scared to intervene and allow 19 children to be slaughtered.
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ufaforApr 10, 2026
+1
This will be their darkest day? Not the dozens+ police officers who died in 9/11?
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ThetruthislikepoetryApr 10, 2026
+1
Great point
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rowsoflarkApr 10, 2026
+1
Law Enforcement was and is partly a work program for people that would be prone to be an even bigger social burden otherwise. Of course those types of people would make law enforcement into a racket.
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michoudiApr 10, 2026
+1
Dude forgot to yell the magic phrase “stop resisting” before throwing the cooler. Rookie mistake.
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Ok_Tie_7564Apr 10, 2026
+1
Everyone can lose their freedom for making a bad decision.
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AdeptWelder3250Apr 10, 2026
+1
Everyone should a large amount of cops don’t
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2ShmooveApr 10, 2026
+31
Throwing coolers at guys on scooters isn't in policy?
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FallouttgrrlApr 10, 2026
+1
Police training prefers the use of lunchpails for scooters, coolers are for escalated threats like motorcycles
If you're curious, it's just crumpled cans against unmotorized bicycles
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Lopsided-Affect-9649Apr 10, 2026
+1
If you watch the video and see the speed that the scooter was traveling at there was no way throwing that cooler wasnt going to cause serious injury or death to the rider. Police in the US are f****** nutcases.
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WjrekyApr 10, 2026
+1
I've never seen the video, how fast was the scooter going?
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jesuisapprenantApr 10, 2026
+23
Police should not have unions. They should not be shielded from liability or lawsuits for malpractice or criminality.
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FallouttgrrlApr 10, 2026
+1
I support police unions...
When we get a complete overhaul of the f****** system and they're employees who need protection from management like the rest of us
Right now those aren't unions, they're a *mafia*
How many unions can tell the mayor "nice house you got here, shame if nobody responded to violence at it" because shit like that happens
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Indie89Apr 10, 2026
+1
3-9 is quite the wild range isn't it?
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ion_driverApr 10, 2026
+1
Is there like a video or something? I read it but I am just trying to figure out what exactly happened.
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Feather757Apr 10, 2026
+1
[https://ag.ny.gov/osi/footage/eric-duprey](https://ag.ny.gov/osi/footage/eric-duprey) Cooler hits the guy at about 0:43 and it's at the top of the screen.
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