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Drunk Erie Cop Receives Slap on Wrist for Dissing Murder Victim

By David Lohr

A cop in Erie, Pennsylvania, recently left egg on the face of his department after a video was released that shows him drunk and jubilantly joking about a homicide victim. Nonetheless, his actions - as disrespectful and disturbing as they are - were not enough to get him kicked off the force, and he will be welcomed back in less than two weeks. The video in question was made on the night of April 6 at the Treehouse Tavern in Girard, PA. In it, off-duty patrolman James Cousins II goes off on a profanity-laced rant about 31-year-old Rondale Jennings Sr., a man who was shot and murdered outside an Erie bar on March 28. "It looked like (expletive) out of a movie. Right in the middle of the (expletive) forehead, right between the (expletive) eyes," James Cousins II says on the video that was posted online...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Report Daily on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).