AS SEEN ON TV: PETROVITS = DANZIGER

OFFICER DANZIGER

AS SEEN IN:
"A Cry For Help: The Tracey Thurman Story"

AS PLAYED BY:
Graham Jarvis

Of the main characters in this tele-movie, the police officer who first showed up at the time of the stabbing had his name changed for his televersion. The real police officer's name was Petrovits......

"That's me!"

Thurman v. City of Torrington
United States District Court D.
Connecticut
October 23, 1984
595 F.Supp. 1521

[The following is an excerpt from the case.]

RULING ON MOTION TO DISMISS
BLUMENFELD, Senior District Judge.

On June 10, 1983, Charles Thurman appeared at the Bentley-St. Hilaire residence in the early afternoon and demanded to speak to Tracey. Tracey, remaining indoors, called the defendant police department asking that Charles be picked up for violation of his probation. After about 15 minutes, Tracey went outside to speak to her husband in an effort to persuade him not to take or hurt Charles Jr. Soon thereafter, Charles began to stab Tracey repeatedly in the chest, neck and throat.

Approximately 25 minutes after Tracey's call to the Torrington Police Department *1526 and after her stabbing, a single police officer, the defendant Petrovits, arrived on the scene. Upon the arrival of Officer Petrovits at the scene of the stabbing, Charles Thurman was holding a bloody knife. Charles then dropped the knife and, in the presence of Petrovits, kicked the plaintiff Tracey Thurman in the head and ran into the Bentley-St. Hilaire residence. Charles returned from within the residence holding the plaintiff Charles Thurman, Jr. and dropped the child on his wounded mother. Charles then kicked Tracey in the head a second time. Soon thereafter, defendants DeAngelo, Nukirk, and Columbia arrived on the scene but still permitted Charles Thurman to wander about the crowd and to continue to threaten Tracey. Finally, upon approaching Tracey once again, this time while she was lying on a stretcher, Charles Thurman was arrested and taken into custody.

If you check the video of the attack which I posted earlier, you'll see that the actual events differ in the real world than they do in Toobworld.....

BCnU