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Ex-cop sentenced on rights violation

Originally published: June 22, 2012 8:58 PM
Updated: June 22, 2012 9:27 PM
By NEWSDAY STAFF lidesk@newsday.com

Michael Daragjati sentenced for violating the civil rights

Michael Daragjati sentenced for violating the civil rights of Kenrick Gray after he was stopped and frisked in Staten Island.

A white NYPD cop convicted of extortion and of violating the civil rights of a black man who he arrested for talking back and later described with a racial slur was sentenced to 57 months in prison Friday by an outraged Brooklyn federal judge.

Former officer Michael Daragjati, 33, told U.S. District Judge William Kuntz that he was not a racist and used the slur to describe anyone who disrespected...

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