Off-Duty Cop Accused Of Beating Teen

January 14, 2010 by Morbid  

Buffalo, New York – Allegedly, during a New Year’s party in a Lancaster home, 17-year-old Justin Mangold confronted 23-year-old Andrew Gill about his cutting in line to play Beer Pong. Gill, a rookie police officer who had only been on the streets for a couple of weeks, proceeded to beat the shit of Mangold who would suffer a broken nose, a cut lip, a chipped tooth and two black eyes. Gill says that he was merely defending himself when Mangold confronted him in a threatening manner. Mangold (and witnesses) say that’s bullshit and that Mangold never threatened Gill, never threw a punch and that Gill attacked Mangold while yelling, “I’m a cop, I can kick your ass and get away with it!” Some do not think that disciplinary action is being handled correctly (nothing has been done yet) but Town Supervisor Robert H. Giza told The Buffalo News they were simply reviewing the facts before deciding whether to suspend or terminate Gill and it has nothing to do with Gill’s father, Gerald, being a lieutenant in the Police Department and that Gill’s uncle, William Cansdale, is mayor of the Village of Lancaster.

There is some bad blood between these two guys that started with a game of football last year involving Mangold and a younger brother of Gill’s. One story is that Mangold got mad at Gill’s younger brother when he was not allowed to play and Mangold  hit the boy and threw his bicycle over a fence. The other story is that Mangold did play football, but he tackled the younger Gill too roughly. Either way, this incident is supposedly the reason why Gill had a grudge against Mangold. It will be interesting watching how this plays out. I’ve already went through the hundreds of comments over at Buffalo News, where there are allegations of police corruption to Mangold deserving what he got. It all reminds me of an ’80s movie starring Corey Haim and John Cusack, two small town brothers being bullied by the mayor’s son, played by Andrew McCarthy. McCarthy and his dad want the boy’s family farm so they can build a shopping mall on the land, but they do not succeed because the brothers win a boat race with the help of Ally Sheedy’s character, the nerdy (but hot) daughter of the town’s mechanic, and are able to pay the bank the back taxes owed.

Yeah, it’s a slow news day.