Officer Perry's Tale
Josh Marshall | TPM
October 22, 2010, 12:21PM
To paraphrase Jesse Jackson, I think God may be finished with Jeff Perry, or at least his run for Congress. You may not have heard of him but he's running for Congress to succeed Bill Delahunt in Massachusetts 10th district. Back a couple decades ago when he was a police officer he was in the business of enabling and then covering for one of those crooked cops who views it as one of the perks of the job doing unwarranted strip searches of pubescent teenage girls.
The basic outlines of the story have been out there for months. In at least two instances, in one case with a 14 year old and in another with a 16 year old, Perry was on the scene as a police officer under his command, Scott Flanagan, decided that in order to find out whether the girl in question was hiding any drugs he had to search her vagina.
In one instance, according to a civil complaint filed by the girl's parents, the 14 year old girl was near a cranberry bog in Wareham when they were approached by a group of police officers including Perry and Flanagan. Flanagan asked the girl whether she had any drugs. He then ordered the girl to unbutton her pants or he would arrest her. He then placed his hands inside the 14 year old's underwear. After this he ordered her to raise her shirt until her breasts were exposed, presumably because he suspected she was hiding drugs in her breasts. No drugs were found.
Later a similar incident happened with Flanagan and another girl. In this case Perry was the commanding officer but not physically present during the incident. Later Flanagan and Perry went to the girl's home and as they were leaving, Perry told the parents, "Oh, yeah, by the way, [she] pulled her pants down for us." Perry was never accused of having direct physical contact with the girls in question. But abundant evidence suggests he knowingly enabled Flanagan's activities and later sought to cover them up.
(More here.)
October 22, 2010, 12:21PM
To paraphrase Jesse Jackson, I think God may be finished with Jeff Perry, or at least his run for Congress. You may not have heard of him but he's running for Congress to succeed Bill Delahunt in Massachusetts 10th district. Back a couple decades ago when he was a police officer he was in the business of enabling and then covering for one of those crooked cops who views it as one of the perks of the job doing unwarranted strip searches of pubescent teenage girls.
The basic outlines of the story have been out there for months. In at least two instances, in one case with a 14 year old and in another with a 16 year old, Perry was on the scene as a police officer under his command, Scott Flanagan, decided that in order to find out whether the girl in question was hiding any drugs he had to search her vagina.
In one instance, according to a civil complaint filed by the girl's parents, the 14 year old girl was near a cranberry bog in Wareham when they were approached by a group of police officers including Perry and Flanagan. Flanagan asked the girl whether she had any drugs. He then ordered the girl to unbutton her pants or he would arrest her. He then placed his hands inside the 14 year old's underwear. After this he ordered her to raise her shirt until her breasts were exposed, presumably because he suspected she was hiding drugs in her breasts. No drugs were found.
Later a similar incident happened with Flanagan and another girl. In this case Perry was the commanding officer but not physically present during the incident. Later Flanagan and Perry went to the girl's home and as they were leaving, Perry told the parents, "Oh, yeah, by the way, [she] pulled her pants down for us." Perry was never accused of having direct physical contact with the girls in question. But abundant evidence suggests he knowingly enabled Flanagan's activities and later sought to cover them up.
(More here.)
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