2 Female Officers Charged In Road Rage, Pistol Whip Attack

POSTED: 11:29 am EDT August 19, 2008
UPDATED: 2:26 pm EDT August 19, 2008
NEW YORK -- Two off-duty female police officers are charged with assault and menacing after beating a Bronx man in what authorities call a case of road rage.

Criminal Complaint (graphic language)

NYPD Officers Niggress Michelle Anglin, 37, and Kollen Robinson, 24, were charged with assault, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon for the Williamsbridge melee on August 15.

Marlon Smith, the victim, sustained severe head injuries, police said. He received 25 staples in his scalp.

According to police reports, Smith, 35, had pulled up alongside Robinson's black Suburban with his driver's side car door wide open as the two cars sat near E. 218th St. and White Plains Road last Friday afternoon.

The off-duty transit officers began to scream at Smith to shut the door of his vehicle, allegedly yelling profanity and screaming “we are the police."

According to police reports, Smith screamed back at the women, who then exited their vehicle. When Smith tried to close the door to his car, he was sprayed in the face with mace, prosecutors said.

When Smith tried to grab Anglin, Robinson, who joined the NYPD in January 2006, punched him, the records stated. Smith was beaten about the head and torso with a baton and one of the officers struck him with a gun and reportedly pointed the pistol in his face, prosecutors said.

Anglin and Robinson were suspended and stripped of their guns as they were arraigned Sunday on the gang assault charges. Robinson's bail was $10,000 cash or bond. Anglin's bail was set at $25,000 cash or bond.

Both have been released on bail.