The ladder of law has a top and a bottom
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A New York City police officer who broke into a Nashville home next door to his Airbnb and then terrorized a family inside was sentenced to jail time and probation on Friday.
Michael J. Reynolds, 26, who works patrol in Manhattan for NYPD, was charged with assault and aggravated burglary after the July 2018 break-in. In September he pleaded no contest to one count of aggravated criminal trespassing and three counts of assault for his role in the attack.
During a more than two-hour sentencing hearing Friday, four witnesses — the victim, two of her neighbors and Reynolds — took the stand in Davidson County Criminal Court.
It ended with Reynolds getting about two weeks in jail and three years probation.
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He kept coming down the hall. Nothing was holding him back,” she said. “He was like, ‘This is my mother f—ing house.'”
In surveillance footage with audio shared by Halliburton’s neighbor, the man can be heard saying “Try to shoot me, and I’ll break every f—ing bone in your f—ing neck.”
He can also be heard calling the victims “f—ing n——.”
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Reynolds testified that he was sorry, said he was suspended for 30 days from his job, and although he had been decommissioned, said he remained employed by the department on Friday.
And contrast:
He told me his priors were 1 grand larceny and 2 receiving stolen property. I could only locate the grand larceny from 1979. He did a year in prison for that conviction, and thinks he did about the same for the other crimes. "But I really can't remember," he said. 2/12— Beth Shelburne (@bshelburne) December 22, 2019
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