NYPD Brawlers and Brethren Busted

A fight outside a Yonkers bar that cost a man his vision in one eye, may cost a number of NYPD members professionally. One of the participants in the brawl on the border of the Westchester city and the Bronx, Thomas Wimmer, has already resigned from the force. Three other officers are suspended without pay after their arraignment Friday on misdemeanor charges related to a beating on McLean Ave. that cracked a man's skull.

Last September, off-duty cops Michael McGhee and Thomas Wimmer got into a fight outside a bar in Yonkers. When partners Stella Ibanez and Jeffrey Alicea arrived on the scene, they witnessed McGhee punch the victim and so handcuffed him. After McGhee identified himself and Wimmer as cops, they let him go and the quartet later concocted a story about neither McGhee nor Wimmer identifying themselves as police.

The judge at the arraignment seemed familiar with the scene of the crime, which consists of a strip of Irish bars near the county line, where victim Peter Cummins was punched after leaving the Rockin' Robin with his girlfriend very early in the morning September 14th. Per the New York Post: "'Little good happens on McLean Avenue at 3:30 a.m.,' said Judge Michael Martinelli."

The three suspended officers and the now-resigned Wimmer pleaded not guilty to blinding Cummins or coming up with a story to cover each other. A fifth man, Patrick Tully, is not a police officer, but was allegedly involved in the fight alongside McGhee and Wimmer.