Cops Admit Putting on Disguises, Destroying Elderly Man’s Cars for Filing a Complaint Against Them
On a daily basis, individuals contact the Project and ask us how they are going about exposing cops who have violated their rights. TFTP often responds to those individuals by advising them to collect evidence and hunt down an attorney or file a complaint with another department. Because of the character of numerous of our stories that we cover, many of those folks tell us that they're scared to file complaints with the departments out of fear of retaliation. As the following incident illustrates, this retaliation is real and is administered by cops on innocent people for attempting to carry them accountable. Two Asbury Park cops Stephen Martinsen, 29, and Thomas Dowling, 26, were charged last year with conspiracy, criminal mischief and weapons offenses. The officers were caught dressing up in disguises and vandalizing two vehicles belonging to 70-year-old Ernest Mignoli. This week, they both pleaded guilty to fourth-degree criminal mischief and as a par