NYPD Officer who Bragged he 'Fried Another N-----' Admits he Falsely Arrested Black man 'to teach respect'

From [HERE] and [HERE] THE RACIST NYPD cop who boasted that he had “fried another n-----” now admits in a letter written to the judge that he falsely arrested the black man to teach him "a lesson."

Michael Daragjati, who is white,  plead guilty on Jan. 24 to a misdemeanor count of deprivation of civil rights in connection with the case. Daragjati is scheduled to be sentenced Friday for violating the civil rights of Kenrick Gray after he was stopped and frisked in Staten Island. He admitted that he arrested a Black man in Stapleton for no reason at all, knowing the man would have to spend the night in jail. On the day after the arrest, Daragjati told a female friend in an intercepted phone call that he had "fried another n-----," said court documents. 

Gray was falsely charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor, and disorderly conduct. As Gray was being processed at the 120th Precinct station in St. George, Daragjati allegedly told him he could have gone home that night, but Daragjati didn't like being disrespected. Gray was held in custody for about 36 hours before being arraigned on April 17 of last year in Stapleton Criminal Court. 

Daragjati explains he fabricated a resisting arrest charge because Gray mouthed off to him. 

“I did so, not because of the color of his skin, but because he was rude and disrespectful to me,” Daragjati wrote in a six-page letter from his jail cell to Brooklyn Federal Judge William Kuntz, who is black and a former member of the Civilian Complaint Review Board.

“I thought that if he received a (desk appearance ticket and was released) this person wouldn’t have learned a lesson that he should not be disrespectful to law enforcement.”

The FBI had been probing Daragjati in an unrelated extortion investigation for threatening someone whom he thought had stolen his snowplow. In the course of that investigation, authorities taped Daragjati discussing Gray’s arrest and repeatedly using the N-word.

“I know that I will never be able to convince the world that I am not a racist,” Daragjati wrote. “I know that I am not . . . . That word was not reserved for people of color, it was used as an ignorant reference to those people in the street because of their conduct and disrespect for the community and members of law enforcement.”

Four Staten Island cops and two retired sergeants also wrote to the judge praising Daragati’s character and asking for leniency. On the most recent job evaluation before his arrest, Daragjati’s supervisor gave him the top grade for “community interaction.”

Daragjati, who has been fired from the force as a result of the conviction, vowed that he will never again utter the N-word. He faces up to 57 months in prison for the civil rights and extortion charges he pleaded guilty to this year.