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Cops & Hooters: Officers Allege Discrimination

Hoboken Police On Katrina Mercy Mission Sue Lieutenant

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) ― A video showing a high-ranking Hoboken police officer cavorting with waitresses from a Hooters restaurant in Alabama has become part of a discrimination lawsuit filed by five Latino officers.

The officers claim their commanding officer, Lieutenant Angelo Andriani, is a racist who coerced four of them to work on his house when they should have been on duty.

The video, recorded in 2005, shows the waitresses holding shotguns and other weapons belonging to officers under Andriani's command.

Some of the plaintiffs were among the officers present.

The video was made while the officers were returning from Louisiana to help with the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Andriani has not commented publicly on the video, and Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio has said he found "nothing criminal" about it.

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