The Daily News has cracked a tightly kept secret, revealing for the first time the identity of the cop who fatally shot a former Marine almost five months ago.
He is White Plains Officer Anthony Carelli.
In a shocking twist, The News has learned that Carelli, who killed retired Marine Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. on Nov. 19, is due in court later this month in a federal police brutality case.
Carelli is one of six cops accused in a $10 million civil suit brought by twin brothers who say he battered them during a disorderly-conduct arrest outside the Black Bear Saloon in downtown White Plains during Memorial Day weekend 2008.
AP; Courtesy Kenneth Chamberlain Jr.
Clockwise from top left: David Chong, Janet DiFiore, Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. and Thomas Roach.
Jereis (Jerry) Hatter and Salameh (Sal) Hatter, 27, claim Carelli was the most brutal of the officers who beat and kicked them while they were handcuffed, calling them “rag heads.” Their parents are Jordanian immigrants.
The brothers say Carelli beat Jereis Hatter with a police baton, causing head and eye injuries, while he was handcuffed to a pole in the booking area of the police station.
“He hit me in my eye with a nightstick and then he kicked me in my nuts,” Jereis Hatter told The News on Wednesday. “He shouldn’t be a cop.”
All charges against the Hatter brothers were dismissed last August by a judge who complained that testimony about the boozy night in question resembled a “Quentin Tarantino script” because everyone had a different version of what happened.
The brothers sued Carelli, several other officers and the City of White Plains, alleging excessive force and federal civil rights violations. The suit says the city “failed to train its employees to control their tempers” and “use force prudently.”
In a 2010 deposition, Carelli said Jereis Hatter hit his own head against the plastic partition in the police car “several” times on the way to the police station.
Asked what he did then, Carelli said, “I told him to stop banging his head.”
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Carelli claimed that once inside Police Headquarters, Jereis Hatter “became belligerent . . . twisting his body in an attempt to move, to get away from me.”
He said both men tumbled to ground, with Carelli having to pin Jereis Hatter until more officers arrived to help restrain him.
Jereis Hatter and his brother say Carelli beat Jereis with a nightstick, then threw him to the ground and pummeled him while calling him a “rag head.”
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