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The list of Rikers Island guards accused of abusing inmates continues to grow longer. Correction Officer Timothy Munroe, 24, of Brooklyn was indicted on charges of assault, falsifying business records and offering a false instrument for filing, among others, the NY Times reports.
The city’s Department of Investigation has uncovered at least three incidents in which Munroe had abused his power and inmates, punching a 20-year-old in January and in separate incidents a month earlier the guard allegedly slapped a 17-year-old inmate and then punched an 18-year-old inmate in the face, leaving him seriously injured.
It was after the January assault, however, that Munroe began falsifying reports, reporting he was on special assignment at the time of the incidents, to keep his hands clean of the abuse.
The Daily News adds that the assaults occurred two months after Christopher Robinson, 18, was beaten to death for refusing to join a fight club supervised by correction officers.
Munroe, who has been a correction officer since 2006, was suspended from his $45,000-a-year position in January and has been on modified duty since. He was arraigned Thursday in State Supreme Court in the Bronx and ordered held on $100,000 bond.
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You're supposed to get abused, that's why you're in jail.
That was sarcasm, right?
And you wonder why a large amount of people hold severe distrust in the institution, the system, authority, whatever you want to call it.
Honestly I wouldn't put much validity to stories like these. As a friend and realtive to many law enforcement officials, including a dozen or so Correction officers I heard horror stories of inmates concoting ridiculous lies to hurt, defame, fire and the ultimate goal of imprisioning an officer because they didn't get a cigarette, was told to go on lockdown and didn't want to or basically not get there way. It's almost as if the friggin' inmates have more rights than the officers! At the end of the day everyones rights should be respected, but c'mon people what in the world would a officer have to gain in purposely injuring an inmate? And no one was killed here. Last time I checked inmates didn't have a great track record of being the most honest of individuals...