« on: January 08, 2020, 11:45:23 pm »
A strange story.
Ex-cop’s guns taken amid son’s probe into deadly fire on ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ set
By Larry Celona and Priscilla DeGregory
January 8, 2020 | 6:15pm
A retired cop says the city took away his guns as retribution — because his fire-inspector son stumbled onto an alleged city conspiracy to protect Ed Norton’s production company amid the investigation into a fatal fire on his “Motherless Brooklyn†film set.
Retired Scarsdale police officer Ronald Cummings, 75, filed a notice of claim —the precursor to a lawsuit — against the city and the fire department claiming the FDNY extorted him and used his son as leverage to confiscate six handguns guns, for which he had licenses, as part of the “initial and continued cover-up of the death of FDNY Firefighter Michael Davidson — all in the name to protect the Hollywood movie industry.†...
Then, on Sept. 19, 2018, the FDNY ordered Jonathan to hand over his handgun with no reason given, but he was later charged with conduct unbecoming the oath of office because the gun was disassembled when he handed it over and was suspended for a month in October.
Jonathan had left the gun disassembled because it was at home and he wanted to keep it safe from his children, Gleason said.
He has been on modified duty since, and Gleason says the suspension was “fabricated†as part of the retaliation against him for trying to blow the whistle on the true cause of the fire. ...
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