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Law-Enforcement Fury Over Judge's Light Rap for Teen Who Dragged Cop

By RICHARD KHAVKINE
Posted 1/26/19

Police and union officials were equally infuriated by the 1-1/3-to 4-year prison sentence given to a Brooklyn teenager who gravely injured a Police Officer in June 2017 by dragging him several blocks at high speed in a stolen car before the officer, Dalsh Veve, was thrown off the vehicle.

“She spit on every shield on every chest in the city,” the president of the Police Benevolent Association, Patrick J. Lynch, said of Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Ruth Shillingford following the Jan. 23 sentencing of Justin Murrell, now 17.

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