Word: burkert
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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...genuine hero to emerge in the course of the sordid hearings, George Burkert, 23, was repeatedly interrupted by applause as he told how he rebuffed every effort by the cops to shake him down. A nighttime tow-truck driver, Burkert was constantly harassed by the police for not playing ball. He was handed tickets for a variety of niggling offenses, such as not turning on his license-plate light. Once he was issued 13 parking tickets in 26 minutes while he was sitting in a station house where he had been taken by the cops. Two police captains even paid...
...Burkert decided to do what the cops wanted him to do-but for the benefit of the Knapp Commission. Properly wired, he made a series of payoffs to the police, climaxed by a $30 bribe handed to two patrolmen right outside a station house. The transaction was filmed by a TV camera crew in a panel truck. The cops spotted the camera and pursued the truck. They managed to stop it, but let it go after the "producer" said they were only filming street scenes. Still, the cops were worried. What if the crew had been working for the Knapp...
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