NYPD Cops Accused of Rape Walk -- but are fired regardless.

[Hannah Bell]

Two New York City police officers were acquitted Thursday of raping a drunken woman they'd been called to help, but were convicted of official misconduct.

UPDATE: The Daily News is reporting that the NYPD has fired officers Moreno and Mata after being charged with official misconduct. "The guilty verdict reached today involved a violation of the officer's oath of office and merits immediate termination," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

ORIGINAL POST: They were called to help a drunken woman get out of a taxi in 2008. The woman testified that she passed out and awoke to being raped in her apartment.

Moreno told jurors he lay alongside her in her bed for a while, but they didn't have sex. Mata was accused of acting as a lookout. He said he was napping in the living room while the others were in the bedroom.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/26/kenneth-moreno-franklin-mata-acquitted_n_867467.html

[Citizen Worker]

1. To serve and to protect and they were living by the credo.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Since when do the police escort drunk people

to their homes? If I had been in that situation, the cops would have thrown me in the drunk tank. Then again, I'm not a vulnerable, intoxicated woman.

[madmax]

3. Got that right. nt

[Tunkamerica]

4. Maybe I shouldn't say this...

but I have been escorted home after such a night. I remember "coming back to reality" in the passenger seat of the cop car with one cop in the driver's seat and the other in the back telling them how I thought my camera was stolen.

This was last year. D-town cops have better things to do and no space for drunks in jail if it's avoidable.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. Biloxi cops have nothing better to do.

They hired too many during the flush times and now we have too many. They have to somehow justify all these extra people on the force.....

[cali]

6. good. what the fuck was he doing lying on her bed with her?

[tblue37]

7. Their stories are such incredible BS. Couldn't they comeup with something better? nt