A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?
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Maggie Baisch
- Gretchen Hall
- (as Margaret Baisch)
Nick Gomez
- Latin thug
- (as Nicholas Sean Gomez)
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- TriviaThe doorman from the victim's apartment building asks Briscoe if the NYPD shut down the "Safe and Loft unit." He is referring to the Safe, Loft and Truck Squad which was a special, elite unit of the NYPD originally founded in 1911 to investigate major commercial burglaries, art thefts, truck hijackings and kidnappings. The unit was slowly eliminated starting in 1990 and phased out over the next few years, the reason being that some of the crimes that the unit investigated, like truck hijackings, simply didn't happen nearly as often in the 80's and 90's as they did in the previous decades. Art thefts had also declined sharply and had mostly become the jurisdiction of the FBI; and kidnapping became one of the crimes investigated by the department's then newly formed Major Case Squad, in fact a number of the detectives that had worked in the Safe and Loft unit were transferred over to the Major Case Squad when it was formed.
- GoofsVan Buren says that the Hispanic men from the sexual assault/food stand robbery incident in the park plead out to either robbery or assault (though the ones that grabbed the girl's breasts and tore her clothes off were also guilty of forcible touching) and the most they would get is 18 months in prison. However someone who pleads guilty to robbery would have to do more than 18 months, even for the lowest degree of robbery. The lowest degree of robbery is third degree robbery, a violent class D felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 24 months in prison. Plus assault in the third degree, which is what the men who assaulted the girl would be charged with, is only a class A misdemeanor meaning they couldn't get 18 months in prison, the maximum sentence for a class A misdemeanor is 12 months in jail. Though a couple of the guys who assaulted the girls were also part of the food vendor robbery, meaning they faced a combined sentence of three years in prison for both robbery three and assault three.
- Quotes
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Nestor!
Nestor Salazar: Whaddya want?
Detective Lennie Briscoe: We want to arrest you, we just don't want to do it in front of all these people.
- ConnectionsReferences American Playhouse: Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
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No excuse
During the Puerto Rican Day Parade as in a whole lot of parades there are a lot of folks who take the celebration as an excuse for bad behavior. Sometimes it could just be public drunkenness or something of that nature. Other times it could be as serious as manslaughter.
The estranged wife of a dot.com millionaire is found in Central Park Lake near the rowboats. The investigation after a couple of red herrings including one that went to trial finally settles on young Victor Anthony who in fact was Brazilian, but he wanted to get into the spirit of the celebration.
Liquor sure is no excuse for what he did, but he saw his buddies disrespecting the women parade watchers and celebrants and got caught up in the moment. Maybe he did, but that was no excuse.
A tragic story because Anthony doesn't seem like a bad individual, just one who made a horrible mistake.
The estranged wife of a dot.com millionaire is found in Central Park Lake near the rowboats. The investigation after a couple of red herrings including one that went to trial finally settles on young Victor Anthony who in fact was Brazilian, but he wanted to get into the spirit of the celebration.
Liquor sure is no excuse for what he did, but he saw his buddies disrespecting the women parade watchers and celebrants and got caught up in the moment. Maybe he did, but that was no excuse.
A tragic story because Anthony doesn't seem like a bad individual, just one who made a horrible mistake.
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- bkoganbing
- Nov 8, 2014
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