An NYPD cop who claimed that a Brooklyn man tried to run him down in a driveway — only to be exposed as a liar by crystal-clear surveillance video — resigned from the force, but got only a wrist-slap jail sentence, The Post has learned. Diego Palacios pleaded guilty on Feb. 7 in Brooklyn Supreme Court to writing a false report, and was ordered to spend four days behind bars, law-enforcement sources said. But Palacios served only a single night in the clink, as state law mandates that inmates are to be released on Friday if their discharge date lands on a weekend. The trouble started when MTA worker John Hockenjos squabbled with a neighbor over who owned the driveway between their Sheepshead Bay homes. The feud came to a boiling point last February when Palacios was called to the scene after Hockenjos, 56, got into a heated beef with the neighbor in the driveway. Palacios eventually slapped cuffs on Hockenjos, claiming in a police report that the enraged engineer had tried to mow him down with a car. The stunned Hockenjos was charged with first-degree felony reckless endangerment, which carries a maximum sentence of up to seven years, and was carted off to jail for three days.
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Lying cop, convicted of it and fired. If I were judge and had the authority, I would have sentenced the ex cop to the t same amount of time the citizen would have faced had he been convicted for the false charge, + 5 yrs for being a cop and held to a higher standard
YES! Perfect.
